Self-determination : the ethics of action. Volume 1 / Thomas Pink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pink, Thomas, author.

Series:

Pink, Thomas. Ethics of action ; v. 1.

The ethics of action ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autonomy (Psychology).

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Ethics of action

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Do we have control of how we act, and does it matter to morality whether we do? Thomas Pink examines this free will problem by arguing that what matters to morality is not in fact the freedom to do otherwise, but something more primitive, a basic capacity or power to determine for ourselves what we do.

Contents:

Action and its place in ethics

Freedom and purposiveness

Motivation and voluntariness

The non-voluntariness of the will

The voluntariness-based model of action

Freedom and scepticism : incompatibilism

Freedom and scepticism : alternatives

Moral responsibility and reduction

The practical reason-based model and its past

Intention and practical reason

The action-constitutive exercise of reason

Action and its motivation

Voluntariness and freedom of the will

Freedom and causation

Freedom as a power.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 9, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-183320-7