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Luck's mischief : obligation and blameworthiness on a thread / Ishtiyaque Haji.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haji, Ishtiyaque, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fortune--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Fortune.
- Free will and determinism.
- Responsibility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 358 pages)
- Other Title:
- Obligation and blameworthiness on a thread
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Something is subject to luck if it is beyond our control. In this book, I show that luck detrimentally affects both moral obligation and moral responsibility. I argue that factors influencing the way we are, together with considerations that link motivation and ability to perform intentional actions, frequently preclude our being able to do otherwise. Since obligation requires that we can do otherwise, luck compromises the range of what is morally obligatory for us. This result, together with principles that conjoin responsibility and obligation, is then exploited to derive the further skeptical conclusion that behaviour for which we are morally responsible is limited as well.
- Contents:
- Luck's Hijacking of Obligation and Responsibility
- Luck's Treat to Obligation and Responsibility
- Synopsis
- Obligation and Alternative Possibilities
- Luck
- Obligation and Alternatives
- Stage-Setting for Objections: Frankfurt Examples
- Obligation Presupposes Alternatives: A Defense
- Nelkin on a Novel Interpretation of OIC
- An Argument from Frankfurt Examples
- Frankfurt Examples and Kant's Law
- Frankfurt Examples and Action
- Frankfurt Examples and Specific versus General Abilities
- Does Blameworthiness Require Impermissibility?
- Truth and the Function of Ought Judgments
- The Argument from Limitation
- Graham on/Cants Law
- Pereboom's Objections
- Obligation Under Threat
- Frankfurt Examples, Luck, and Obligation
- Principle Motivation/Ability
- Diminished Obligation
- Objections and Replies
- Another Frankfurt Example
- Obligation and Self-Control
- Blameworthiness Under Threat
- Blameworthiness and Impermissibility
- The Objective View
- The Simple Subjective View
- The Complex Subjective View
- Respecting Subjective Views
- Subjective Views Defended
- Subjective Views and the Principle of Alternative Expectations
- Diminished Blameworthiness
- Changing Obligations, Blameworthiness, and Impermissibility
- A Costly Way Out: Obligation and Blameworthiness Rescued
- Semicompatibilism and Nonmoral Varieties of Blameworthiness
- Semicompatibilism
- Semicompatibilism's Domain
- The Scope of Nonmoral Varieties of Blameworthiness
- Teleological Theories, Obligation, and Blameworthiness
- Ramifications
- Character, Obligation, and Blameworthiness
- On the Moral Aims of Education
- Imperiled Aims
- The Defeat of Uprightness
- The Defeat of Appraisability
- Spreading the Net: More Is at Stake
- Some Thoughts on the Metaphysics of Free Will
- Constrained Skepticism
- Frankfurt Examples and Guidance Control
- From the Frying Pan into the Fire: Frankfurt Examples Yet Again
- The Traditional Dilemma
- Determinism, Obligation, and Blameworthiness
- Indeterminism, Obligation, and Blameworthiness
- Modest Libertarianism and the Luck Objection
- The No Explanation Version
- The Pure Luck Version
- Griffith on the Luck Objection
- Steward on the Luck Objection
- Luck and Obligation
- Determinism and Strong Alternatives
- A Slight Digression: Compatibilism and Luck
- Our Morally Messy World.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-049356-9
- 0-19-026079-3
- 0-19-026078-5
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