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The primary purpose of this book is to explain the distinction, on the one hand, between indoctrination and education, and, on the other, between responsibility-subverting manipulation and mere causation. Both are elucidated by an appeal to common ground, an account of when our motivations and other springs of action are "truly our own" or "authentic." The book progresses from analyses of the sort of agency that responsibility requires and the authenticity of our motivations, together with a discussion of the relevance of these analyses to manipulation and related problems in the...

Drawing important, hitherto unnoticed connections between issues central in the philosophy of education and those pivotal in the free will debate, this book argues that these two sets of problems cannot be pursued in isolation from one another.