Deontic morality and control / Ishtiyaque Haji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haji, Ishtiyaque.

Series:

Cambridge studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Ethics.

Duty.

Physical Description:

xiv, 288 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2002]

Contents:

Two Parallel Riddles 1

Primary Goals 5

Prospectus 8

Part 1 Determinism and Deontic Morality

2 Obligation and Control 13

Fundamentals of Moral Obligation 14

'Can' and Obligation 16

3 Frankfurt-Type Cases and Deontic Control 25

Frankfurt-Type Examples 26

A Requirement of Alternative Possibilities for Wrong Actions 27

Principle CK and Wrongness 27

The Plausibility of Principles CK and WC 29

A Requirement of Alternative Possibilities for Deontic Morality 31

An Alternative Argument 33

4 Control Requirements of Deontic Anchors: Some Objections 36

Objections to K and Replies 36

Frankfurt-Type Cases and K 37

A Widerkerian Objection against K 37

An Objection from Counterintuitiveness 41

Fischer against K 43

A Direct Threat against K from Frankfurt-Type Examples 46

Self-Imposed Impossibility and K 47

Pereboom on OW 52

Genuine Moral Dilemmas and OW 53

Appendix Yaffe on K 54

5 Determinism and Deontic Anchors 59

The Consequence Argument for the Incompatibility of Determinism and Alternative Possibilities 60

Some Objections and Replies 62

Why Determinism Undermines Deontic Anchors 65

Objections to the New Incompatibility Thesis and Replies 70

Appendix Saka on 'Ought' Implies 'Can' and Determinism 77

Part 2 Indeterminism and Deontic Morality

6 Transition: From Determinism to Indeterminism 87

Synopsis 89

R-Libertarianism 91

Modest Meleian Libertarianism 92

An Objection and a Reply 95

Modest Meleian Libertarianism and Deontic Anchors 101

7 Robust Modest R-Libertarianism and Luck 104

Robust Modest R-Libertarianism 105

Robust R-Libertarianism and the Luck Objection 107

Picking up the Gauntlet 110

Refining PCEC 113

Support for NCC 117

Robust R-Libertarianism and Deontic Morality 120

8 Robust Modest R-Libertarianism and Deontic Anchors 122

The Problem and the Outlines of a Solution 122

A Case of CNC Manipulation: Psychohacker 125

Robust Modest R-Libertarianism and CNC Manipulation 127

Hierarchical Control and CNC Manipulation 133

Normative Agency and CNC Manipulation 135

Deontic Morality and CNC Manipulation 138

Antecedent Contrastive Control, Moral Responsibility, and Deontic Anchors 142

Part 3 Consequences of Being Deprived of Deontic Anchors

9 The Significance of the Possibility of Being without Deontic Anchors 151

Transition and Synopsis 151

Smilansky on the Ethical Advantages of Hard Determinism 153

Pereboom on the Consequences of Determinism 155

10 Determinism, Deontic Anchors, and Appraisability 162

Possible Justifications for the Objective View 164

Supererogation, Suberogation, and the Objective View 167

The Supererogatory and the Suberogatory 167

Appraisability, the Supererogatory, and the Suberogatory 170

Rejecting an Alleged Asymmetry between the Super-and the Suberogatory 176

Praiseless Supererogation and Blameless Suberogation 177

The Objective View and the Significance of Alternative Possibilities 182

The Argument from Fairness 184

Two Faces of Responsibility 191

Appendix A Direct Challenge to the Objective View 194

11 Virtue Ethics without Metaphysical Freedom 197

An Outline of a Version of Virtue Ethics 198

Broad Contours of Another Virtue-Ethical Theory 202

The Many Faces of Morality and the Autonomy of Deontic Appraisals 205

Appendix Kekes on K 211

12 On the Connection between Morality's Dethronement and Deontic Anchors 221

The Overridingness Thesis 221

A Confusion Revealed 225

Slote on Overridingness 226

Kekes on Overridingness 230

Shortcomings of the Overarching Standard

Reason 234

On Reason's Dethroning Morality 235

Some Interim Conclusions 237

Overridingness and Culpability 239

A New Pair of Skeptical Arguments 242

On Not Being Sources of Deontic Morality 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-281) and index.

ISBN:

0521813875

OCLC:

47930709

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