The limits of free will / Paul Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Paul, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 288 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

This volume contains a selection of papers concerning free will and moral responsibility. Among the topics covered, as they relate to these problems, are the challenge of skepticism; moral sentiment and moral capacity; necessity and the metaphysics of causation; practical reason; free will and art; fatalism and the limits of agency; and our metaphysical attitudes of optimism and pessimism.

Contents:

Cover; The Limits of Free Will; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Sources; Introduction; Part I. Free Will and Causal Relations; 1. Sorabji and the Dilemma of Determinism: With an Addendum, 2016; 2. Causation, Compulsion, and Compatibilism; Part II. Responsibility, Skepticism, and Moral Sentiment; 3. Strawson's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility; 4. Responsibility and the Condition of Moral Sense; 5. Moral Sense and the Foundations of Responsibility; 6. Responsibility, Naturalism, and "The Morality System"; Part III. Practical Reason, Art, and Manipulation.

7. Practical Reason and Motivational Skepticism 8. Free Will, Art, and Morality; 9. Selective Hard Compatibilism: Manipulation and Moral Standing; Part IV. Pessimism and the Limits of Free Will; 10. Compatibilist-​Fatalism: Finitude, Pessimism, and the Limits of Free Will; 11. Pessimists, Pollyannas, and the New Compatibilism; 12. Free Will Pessimism; List of Related Publications and Interviews; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 15, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-062762-X

0-19-062763-8