Bound : essays on free will and responsibility / Shaun Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Shaun, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Ethics.

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 188 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Essays on free will and responsibility

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shaun Nichols offers a naturalistic, psychological account of the origins of the problem of free will. He argues that our belief in indeterminist choice is grounded in faulty inference and therefore unjustified, goes on to suggest that there is no single answer to whether free will exists, and promotes a pragmatic approach to prescriptive issues.

Contents:

Agency. The folk psychology of agency ; The indeterminist intuition : source and status ; Free will and error

Moral responsibility. Incompatibilism : intuitive and isolated ; Debunking arguments ; Brute retributivism ; After incompatibilism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-104009-6

0-19-880131-9

0-19-179547-X

0-19-104008-8

OCLC:

899008418