Action Freedom And Responsibility

Author : Hilary Bok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400822737

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Freedom and Responsibility by Hilary Bok Pdf

Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to show that we can. Hilary Bok takes a fresh approach here, as she seeks to show that the two ideas are compatible by drawing on the distinction between practical and theoretical reasoning. Bok argues that when we engage in practical reasoning--the kind that involves asking "what should I do?" and sifting through alternatives to find the most justifiable course of action--we have reason to hold ourselves responsible for what we do. But when we engage in theoretical reasoning--searching for causal explanations of events--we have no reason to apply concepts like freedom and responsibility. Bok contends that libertarians' arguments against "compatibilist" justifications of moral responsibility fail because they describe human actions only from the standpoint of theoretical reasoning. To establish this claim, she examines which conceptions of freedom of the will and moral responsibility are relevant to practical reasoning and shows that these conceptions are not vulnerable to many objections that libertarians have directed against compatibilists. Bok concludes that the truth or falsity of the claim that we are free and responsible agents in the sense those conceptions spell out is ultimately independent of deterministic accounts of the causes of human actions. Clearly written and powerfully argued, Freedom and Responsibility is a major addition to current debate about some of philosophy's oldest and deepest questions.

Author : Subasini Barik
Publisher : DK Printworld (P) Ltd
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788124611128

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Action, Freedom and Responsibility by Subasini Barik Pdf

This book, a work on human doing, analyses and applies three central aspects of human life – Action, Freedom and Responsibility – in the wide spectrum of the Philosophy of Mind. Reflections on these issues and their interconnections have a significant effect on the Philosophy of Value and application of ethical theories in practical life. This book even reconstructs the conceptual connection between action and freedom, on the one hand, and that between freedom and responsibility, on the other. It also puts the concepts of freedom and determinism to critical test and reinterprets them from different angles and perspectives. The conventional doctrine of karma, based on the teachings of the BhagavadgÁtÀ, is relieved from its usual deterministic presentation and a logically reasonable explanation is offered. Human actions and human agency are central concepts in the philosophy of mind and action. Free will and responsibility constitute the bedrock of the moral life of the human agents and the book pinpoints that freedom is meant to undertake the goal-oriented actions. It is, therefore, focused on the enquiry into the various aspects of philosophy of mind, as well as the philosophy of value.

Author : Herbert Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : NWU:35556001327261

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Freedom and Responsibility by Herbert Morris Pdf

Author : Vlad Beliavsky
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030415716

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Freedom, Responsibility, and Therapy by Vlad Beliavsky Pdf

This book investigates the role of free will and responsibility in mental well-being, psychotherapy, and personality theory. Mounting evidence suggests that a belief in free will is associated with positive outcomes for human mental health and behaviours, yet little is known about why the theme of freedom has such a significant impact. This book explores why and how different freedom-related concepts affect well-being and psychotherapy, such as autonomy, free will, negative freedom, the experience of freedom, blame, and responsibility. Through the lens of the works of Freud and Rogers, the book tackles both theoretical and practical questions: How can different senses of responsibility affect mental health? What are the implications of a lack of free will for therapy? If we have no free will, can therapists continue to encourage their clients to take responsibility for their actions? Is it possible to reconcile different counselling schools concerning free will? With an illuminating dive into both philosophy and psychotherapy, Beliavsky carefully analyses the implications of the philosophical free will debate on therapy and shows that some senses of freedom and responsibility are crucial to psychotherapy and mental health.

Author : Dana Kay Nelkin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191619427

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Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility by Dana Kay Nelkin Pdf

Dana Kay Nelkin presents a simple and natural account of freedom and moral responsibility which responds to the great variety of challenges to the idea that we are free and responsible, before ultimately reaffirming our conception of ourselves as agents. Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility begins with a defense of the rational abilities view, according to which one is responsible for an action if and only if one acts with the ability to recognize and act for good reasons. The view is compatibilist?that is, on the view defended, responsibility is compatible with determinism?and one of its striking features is a certain asymmetry: it requires the ability to do otherwise for responsibility when actions are blameworthy, but not when they are praiseworthy. In defending and elaborating the view, Nelkin questions long-held assumptions such as those concerning the relation between fairness and blame and the nature of so-called reactive attitudes such as resentment and forgiveness. Her argument not only fits with a metaphysical picture of causation?agent-causation?often assumed to be available only to incompatibilist accounts, but receives positive support from the intuitively appealing Ought Implies Can Principle, and establishes a new interpretation of freedom and moral responsibility that dovetails with a compelling account of our inescapable commitments as rational agents.

Author : Moira Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521166386

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Responsibility and Practical Freedom by Moira Roberts Pdf

Mrs Roberts examines responsibility and freedom in terms of human interests and purposes. She builds up an account of the social context in which we learn to use words like 'responsibility', 'freedom' and 'action'. Ambiguities in the use of 'action' and 'perception' are dealt with at length.

Author : Samira Kumar Sahoo
Publisher : Swami VI Ve Kananda Yo Ga Anusandhana Sams Thana
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 062377979X

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ACTION FREEDOM And RESPONSIBILITY IN PHILOSOPHY OF SARTRE AND THE GITA A COMPARATIVE STUDY by Samira Kumar Sahoo Pdf

The issues relating to concept of action, freedom and responsibility has been a problem for all philosophers. This is a problem that relates a man in his life-situation. Free-will or free-choice defines action. The objective of this work is to understand the issues pertaining to action, freedom and responsibility. It also tries to reconstruct the metaphysical presuppositions and ethical corollaries of the philosophy of action. The concept of action is focal point of analysis in morality. The notions of rational deliberation, free-will, responsibility are meaningful in relation to action. To say that human actions are willed or volitional is to say the half-truth. Animal behaviour can also said to be willed, but will in this sense is not necessarily a rational activity. Human actions are volitional in the specific sense of the term i.e., the willing is not a blind caprice or of the nature of instinctive prompting but is backed by rational deliberation. There is always scope for subjecting human action to moral valuation because there is alternative course of action leading to alternative set of consequences open before the agent. Since it is assumed that the moral action is not coerced to what he does, he owns the action and thereby the consequences of action. So agent will be held responsible only when he understands the situation, does not take any alternative course of action whimsically and consents to such course of action.

Author : Thomas Pink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192853585

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Free Will: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Pink Pdf

Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - but are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? This book looks at free will.

Author : Robert Young (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : UVA:X000013370

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Freedom, Responsibility, and God by Robert Young (Ph. D.) Pdf

Author : Germain Grisez,Russell Shaw
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268075552

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Beyond the New Morality by Germain Grisez,Russell Shaw Pdf

First published in 1974, with a second, revised edition in 1980, Beyond the New Morality has been used widely in introductory ethics courses at the undergraduate level. The book appeals to those who want something not overburdened with theory, and presented in a contemporary idiom. In this third edition of the now standard classroom text, Grisez and Shaw retain the best elements of the earlier versions, including their clear, straightforward presentation and use of nontechnical language. Although the basic approach, content, and organization remain substantially the same, the new edition does develop and amend some aspects of the theory. For example, the community dimension of morality is brought out more clearly and the first principle of morality is now formulated more accurately in terms of willing in line with integral human fulfillment.

Author : John Lemos
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603849302

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Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism by John Lemos Pdf

John Lemos "Freedom, Responsibility & Determinism" offers an up-to-date introduction to free will (and associated) debates in an engaging, dialogic format that recommends it for use by beginning students in philosophy as well as by undergraduates in intermediate courses in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and action theory.

Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521007739

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Ethics and the A Priori by Michael Smith Pdf

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Author : Bernard Berofsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351785341

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Freedom from Necessity by Bernard Berofsky Pdf

This book, first published in 1987, is about the classic free will problem, construed in terms of the implications of moral responsibility. The principal thesis is that the core issue is metaphysical: can scientific laws postulate objectively necessary connections between an action and its causal antecedents? The author concludes they cannot, and that, therefore, free will and determinism can be reconciled.

Author : Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107105591

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Confronting the Internet's Dark Side by Raphael Cohen-Almagor Pdf

This book outlines social and moral guidelines to combat violent, hateful, and illegal activity on the Internet.

Author : Justin Caouette,Ishtiyaque Haji
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443853231

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Free Will and Moral Responsibility by Justin Caouette,Ishtiyaque Haji Pdf

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 responsibility (or moral obligation) requires, the freedom to do otherwise, some papers in this collection debate the merits of Frankfurt-style examples that purport to show that one can be responsible despite lacking alternatives. Responding to the horn that indeterminism implies luck or randomness, other papers discuss the strengths or shortcomings of libertarian free will or control. Also included in this collection are essays on the freedom requirements of moral obligation, forgiveness and free will, a “desert-free” conception of free will, and vicarious legal and moral responsibility. The authors of the essays in this volume are philosophers who have made significant contributions to debates in free will, moral responsibility, moral obligation, the reactive attitudes, philosophy of action, and philosophical psychology, and include John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Michael McKenna, Alfred Mele, and Derk Pereboom.