Freedom and responsibility in context / Ann Whittle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whittle, Ann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 235 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Ann Whittle offers a fresh approach to questions about whether our actions are free and whether we are morally responsible for them. She argues that the answers to these questions depend on the contexts in which we make claims about our abilities and our control over our actions.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Agential modal contextualism

2. Abilities and incompatibilism

3. All-in abilities in context

4. A contextualist account of regulative freedom

5. Problems for alternative analyses

6. Control

7. Defending an ability analysis of control

8. A contextualist account of moral responsibility

9. The problem of unfairness

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-229) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-193782-7

0-19-266045-4

OCLC:

1276857298