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Reason's debt to freedom : normative appraisals, reasons, and free will / Ishtiyaque Haji.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haji, Ishtiyaque, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frankfurt, Harry G., 1929-2023.
- Frankfurt, Harry G.
- Responsibility.
- Free will and determinism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 259 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Normative appraisals, reasons, and free will
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- To have free will with respect to an act is to have the ability both to perform and to refrain from performing it. In this book Ishtiyaque Haji argues that no one can have practical reasons of a certain sort - 'objective reasons' - to perform some act unless one has free will regarding that act.
- Contents:
- Freedom, normative judgments, and reason
- Reasons and alternative possibilities
- Moral obligation, prudential obligation, and alternative possibilities
- Axiological appraisals and alternative possibilities
- Moral sentiments an alternative possibilities
- Determinism's impact on normative judgments
- Imperiled compatibilist approaches.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-49971-0
- 9786613594945
- 0-19-989921-5
- OCLC:
- 812255804
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