Essays on free will and moral responsibility / edited by Nick Trakakis and Daniel Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trakakis, Nick.

Cohen, Daniel, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The problem of free will has fascinated philosophers since ancient times: Do we have free will, or at least the kind of free will that seems necessary for moral responsibility? Does determinism - the idea that everything that happens is necessitated to happen, given the past and the laws of nature - threaten the commonly held assumption that we are indeed free and morally responsible? Although these questions have been widely discussed in the past, the present volume offers a variety of new ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; DEFENDING HARD INCOMPATIBILISM AGAIN; WHITHER MORALITY IN A HARD DETERMINIST WORLD; MEANINGFULNESS, HARD DETERMINISM AND OBJECTIVITY; MORAL INFLUENCE, MORAL RESPONSIBILITY; THE ILLUSION OF LIBERTARIAN FREE WILL; RESTRICTIVISM IS A COVERT COMPATIBILISM; THREE FREEDOMS, FREE WILL AND SELF-FORMATION; OBLIGATION AND LUCK; ULTIMACY AND SWEET JANE; THE DIRECT ARGUMENT; SOME FURTHER THOUGHTS ON THE DIRECT ARGUMENT; FREE WILL AND FAIRNESS; ADDICTION IS NO EXCUSE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4438-1076-2

OCLC:

823720732