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Free will and moral responsibility / edited by Ishtiyaque Haji and Justin Caouette.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free will and determinism.
- Responsibility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Determinism is, roughly, the thesis that facts about the past and the laws of nature entail all truths. A venerable, age-old dilemma concerning responsibility distils to this: if either determinism is true or it is not true, we lack "responsibility-grounding" control. Either determinism is true or it is not true. So, we lack responsibility-grounding control. Deprived of such control, no one is ever morally responsible for anything. A number of the freshly-minted essays in this collection address aspects of this dilemma. Responding to the horn that determinism undermines the freedom that respon
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 7, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-5323-2
- OCLC:
- 859833508
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