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Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities

Author : Michael McKenna
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351777513
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities written by Michael McKenna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was published in 2003. This book explores an important issue within the free will debate: the relation between free will and moral responsibility. In his seminal article "Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility", Harry Frankfurt launched a vigorous attack on the standard conception of that relation, questioning the claim that a person is morally responsible for what she has done only if she could have done otherwise. Since then, Frankfurt's thesis has been at the center of philosophical discussions on free will and moral responsibility. "Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities", edited by David Widerker and Michael McKenna, draws together the most recent work on Frankfurt's thesis by leading theorists in the area of free will and responsibility. As the majority of the essays appear here for the first time, "Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities" offers the newest developments in this important debate.

Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities

Author : David Widerker
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754656982
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (569 download)

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Book Synopsis Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities by : David Widerker

Download or read book Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities written by David Widerker and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores an important issue within the free will debate: the relation between free will and moral responsibility. In his seminal article Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility, Harry Frankfurt launched a vigorous attack on the standard conception of that relation, questioning the claim that a person is morally responsible for what she has done only if she could have done otherwise. Since then, Frankfurt's thesis has been at the center of philosophical discussions on free will and moral responsibility.Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities, edited by David Widerker and Michael McKenna, draws together the most recent work on Frankfurt's thesis by leading theorists in the area of free will and responsibility. As the majority of the essays appear here for the first time, Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities offers the newest developments in this important debate.

Perspectives on Moral Responsibility

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721569
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Moral Responsibility written by John Martin Fischer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores aspects of responsibility, including moral accountability; hierarchy, rationality, and the real self; and ethical responsibility and alternative possibilities.

My Way

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195179552
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book My Way written by John Martin Fischer and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of John Martin Fischer's essays on free will and moral responsibility. Fischer's overall framework contains an argument for the contention that moral responsibility does not require free will in the sense that implies alternative possibilities and a sketch of a comprehensive theory of moral responsibility.

Responsibility and Control

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316583759
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Responsibility and Control written by John Martin Fischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive, systematic theory of moral responsibility. The authors explore the conditions under which individuals are morally responsible for actions, omissions, consequences, and emotions. The leading idea in the book is that moral responsibility is based on 'guidance control'. This control has two components: the mechanism that issues in the relevant behavior must be the agent's own mechanism, and it must be appropriately responsive to reasons. The book develops an account of both components. The authors go on to offer a sustained defense of the thesis that moral responsibility is compatible with causal determinism.

Free Will

Author : Kevin Timpe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441115048
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Free Will written by Kevin Timpe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much contemporary scholarship on free will focuses on whether it is compatible with causal determinism. According to compatibilists, it is possible for an agent to be determined in all her choices and actions and still be free. Incompatibilists, on the other hand, think that the existence of free will is incompatible with the truth of determinism. There are two dominant general conceptions of the nature of free will. According to the first of these, free will is primarily a function of being able to do otherwise than one in fact does. On this view, free will centrally depends upon alternative possibilities. The second approach focuses instead on issues of sourcehood, holding that free will is primarily a function of an agent being the source of her actions in a particular way. This book demarcates these two different conceptions free will, explores the relationship between them, and examines how they relate to the debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists. It ultimately argues for a version of Source Incompatibilism.

The Metasphysics of Free Will

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1557868573
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The Metasphysics of Free Will written by John Martin Fischer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-10-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysics of Free Will provides a through statement of the major grounds for skepticism about the reality of free will and moral responsibility. The author identifies and explains the sort of control that is associated with personhood and accountability, and shows how it is consistent with causal determinism. In so doing, out view of ourselves as morally responsible agents is protected against the disturbing changes posed by science and religion.

Living Without Free Will

Author : Derk Pereboom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521029961
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Living Without Free Will written by Derk Pereboom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible for our actions.

Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities

Author : David Widerker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315248660
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities written by David Widerker and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relation between free will and moral responsibility. Harry Frankfurt's thesis has been at the center of philosophical discussions on free will and moral responsibility. This book draws on the work on Frankfurt's thesis by leading theorists in the area of free will and responsibility, and offers developments in this debate.

Hard Luck

Author : Neil Levy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019161906X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Hard Luck written by Neil Levy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of luck has played an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility, yet participants in these debates have relied upon an intuitive notion of what luck is. Neil Levy develops an account of luck, which is then applied to the free will debate. He argues that the standard luck objection succeeds against common accounts of libertarian free will, but that it is possible to amend libertarian accounts so that they are no more vulnerable to luck than is compatibilism. But compatibilist accounts of luck are themselves vulnerable to a powerful luck objection: historical compatibilisms cannot satisfactorily explain how agents can take responsibility for their constitutive luck; non-historical compatibilisms run into insurmountable difficulties with the epistemic condition on control over action. Levy argues that because epistemic conditions on control are so demanding that they are rarely satisfied, agents are not blameworthy for performing actions that they take to be best in a given situation. It follows that if there are any actions for which agents are responsible, they are akratic actions; but even these are unacceptably subject to luck. Levy goes on to discuss recent non-historical compatibilisms, and argues that they do not offer a viable alternative to control-based compatibilisms. He suggests that luck undermines our freedom and moral responsibility no matter whether determinism is true or not.

The Importance of What We Care About

Author : Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521336116
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The Importance of What We Care About written by Harry G. Frankfurt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-05-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind, first published in 1988.

Building Better Beings

Author : Manuel Vargas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019969754X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Building Better Beings written by Manuel Vargas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuel Vargas presents a compelling and state-of-the-art defense of moral responsibility in the face of growing philosophical and scientific skepticism about free will and accountability. He shows how we can justify our responsibility practices, and provides a normatively and naturalistically adequate account of agency, blame, and desert.

The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility

Author : Bruce N. Waller
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262028166
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility written by Bruce N. Waller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author examines the stubborn philosophical belief in moral responsibility, surveying the philosophical arguments for it, but focusing on the system that supports these arguments: powerful social and psychological factors that hold the belief in moral responsibility firmly in place.--Publisher's description.

Moral Responsibility and the Relevance of Alternative Possibilities

Author : Daniel James Speak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Moral Responsibility and the Relevance of Alternative Possibilities written by Daniel James Speak and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405138109
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Free Will and Moral Responsibility written by Peter A. French and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore various issues pertaining to human agency, such as the relationship between free will and causal determinism, and the nature and conditions of moral responsibility. Builds on and extends some of the very best recent work in the field. Features lively and vigorous debate. Forges connections between abstract philosophical theorizing and applied work in neuroscience and even criminal law.

Action, Ethics, and Responsibility

Author : Joseph Keim Campbell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262514842
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Action, Ethics, and Responsibility written by Joseph Keim Campbell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy of law. Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the "free will" problem. By contrast, these essays by leading philosophers view responsibility from a variety of perspectives—metaphysics, ethics, action theory, and the philosophy of law. After a broad, framing introduction by the volume's editors, the contributors consider such subjects as responsibility as it relates to the "free will" problem; the relation between responsibility and knowledge or ignorance; the relation between causal and moral responsibility; the difference, if any, between responsibility for actions and responsibility for omissions; the metaphysical requirements for making sense of "collective" responsibility; and the relation between moral and legal responsibility. The contributors include such distinguished authors as Alfred R. Mele, John Martin Fischer, George Sher, and Frances Kamm, as well as important rising scholars. Taken together, the essays in Action, Ethics, and Responsibility offer a breadth of perspectives that is unmatched by other treatments of the topic. Contributors Joseph Keim Campbell, David Chan, Randolph Clarke, E.J. Coffman, John Martin Fischer, Helen Frowe, Todd Jones, Frances Kamm, Antti Kauppinen, Alfred R. Mele, Michael O'Rourke, Paul Russell, Robert F. Schopp, George Sher, Harry S. Silverstein, Saul Smilansky, Donald Smith, Charles T. Wolfe

Free Will

Author : Derk Pereboom
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160384886X
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Free Will written by Derk Pereboom and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique anthology featuring contributions to the dispute over free will from Aristotle to the twenty-first century, Derk Pereboom's volume presents the most thoughtful positions taken in this crucial debate and discusses their consequences for free will's traditional corollary, moral responsibility. The Second Edition retains the organizational structure that made its predecessor the leading anthology of its kind, while adding major new selections by such philosophers as Spinoza, Reid, John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Galen Strawson, and Timothy O'Connor. Hackett Readings in Philosophy is a versatile series of compact anthologies, each devoted to a topic of traditional interest. Selections include classical, modern, and contemporary writings chosen for their elegance of exposition and success at stimulating thought and discussion.