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Deep control : essays on free will and value / John Martin Fischer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fischer, John Martin, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free will and determinism.
- Values.
- Fortune.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages)
- Other Title:
- Essays on free will and value
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this collection of essays -- a follow up to My Way and Our Stories -- John Martin Fischer defends the contention that moral responsibility is associated with ""deep control"". Fischer defines deep control as the middle ground between two untenable extreme positions: ""superficial control"" and ""total control"". Our freedom consists of the power to add to the given past, holding fixed the laws of nature, and therefore, Fischer contends, we must be able to interpret our actions as extensions of a line that represents the actual past. In ""connecting the dots"", we engage in a distinctive sor
- Contents:
- pt. 1. An actual-sequence approach to moral responsibility
- pt. 2. The middle path: guidance control.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045391-5
- 0-19-026753-4
- 1-283-42772-9
- 9786613427724
- 0-19-987667-3
- OCLC:
- 769344042
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