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Making sense of freedom and responsibility / Dana Kay Nelkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelkin, Dana Kay, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free will and determinism.
- Responsibility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 194 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Dana Kay Nelkin presents a new account of freedom and moral responsibility, based on the view that one is responsible for an action if and only if one acts with the ability to recognize and act for good reasons. She responds to various challenges to the idea that we are free and responsible, and reaffirms our notion of ourselves as agents.
- Contents:
- A rational abilities view of responsibility
- Deep assessment and good action
- Abilities
- A compatibilist account of agent causation
- A rationale for the rational abilities view: praise, blame, and the ought-implies-can principle
- Deliberation and alternatives
- The sense of freedom, or acting under the idea of freedom.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-968476-6
- 1-283-26561-3
- 9786613265616
- 0-19-161942-6
- OCLC:
- 757856732
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