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Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415327296
Author : Derk Pereboom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521029964
Argues that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible for our actions.
Author : David Palmer (Professor)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199860081
This title provides a collection of essays on the libertarian position on free will and related issues that focus specifically on the views of philosopher Robert Kane. Written by a distinguished group of philosophers, the essays range from various areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of mind.
Author : Justin Caouette,Ishtiyaque Haji
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443853231
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.
Author : John Martin Fischer,Robert Kane,Derk Pereboom,Manuel Vargas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405182041
Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moralresponsibility, and determinism, this text represents the mostup-to-date account of the four major positions in the free willdebate. Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposingviewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism,and revisionism The first half of the book contains each philosopher’sexplanation of his particular view; the second half allows them todirectly respond to each other’s arguments, in a lively andengaging conversation Offers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussion Forms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophyseries
Author : Michael McKenna,David Widerker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351777513
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.
Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 041532727X
Author : David Palmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199860098
According to the libertarian position on free will, people sometimes exercise free will, but this freedom is incompatible with the truth of causal determinism. Frequently maligned within the history of philosophy, this view has recently gained increasingly sympathetic attention among philosophers. But stark questions remain: How plausible is this view? If our actions are not causally determined, how can we have control over them? Why should we want our actions to be breaks in the deterministic causal chain? The recent resurgence of interest in libertarianism is due, most significantly, to Robert Kane, who is the leading contemporary defender of this view of free will. This book is a collection of new essays on the libertarian position on free will and related issues that focuses specifically on the views of Kane. Written by a distinguished group of philosophers, the essays cover various areas of philosophy including metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of mind. Kane contributes a final essay, replying to the criticisms offered in the previous chapters and developing his view in new directions.
Author : Alfred R Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199705672
Mele's ultimate purpose in this book is to help readers think more clearly about free will. He identifies and makes vivid the most important conceptual obstacles to justified belief in the existence of free will and meets them head on. Mele clarifies the central issue in the philosophical debate about free will and moral responsibility, criticizes various influential contemporary theories about free will, and develops two overlapping conceptions of free will - one for readers who are convinced that free will is incompatible with determinism (incompatibilists), and the other for readers who are convinced of the opposite (compatibilists). Mele's theory offers an original perspective on an important problem and will garner the attention of anyone interested in the debate on free will.
Author : John Martin Fischer,Mark Ravizza
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501721564
Explores aspects of responsibility, including moral accountability; hierarchy, rationality, and the real self; and ethical responsibility and alternative possibilities.
Author : Randolph Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Free will and determinism
ISBN : 0195306422
This text examines free will in the context of determinism on the one hand, and the notion that this choice may in fact be random and arbitrary on the other.
Author : Robert H Kane,Carolina Sartorio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000449457
In this little but profound volume, Robert Kane and Carolina Sartorio debate a perennial question: Do We Have Free Will? Kane introduces and defends libertarianism about free will: free will is incompatible with determinism; we are free; we are not determined. Sartorio introduces and defends compatibilism about free will: free will is compatible with determinism; we can be free even while our actions are determined through and through. Simplifying tricky terminology and complicated concepts for readers new to the debate, the authors also cover the latest developments on a controversial topic that gets us entangled in questions about blameworthiness and responsibility, coercion and control, and much more. Each author first presents their own side, and then they interact through two rounds of objections and replies. Pedagogical features include standard form arguments, section summaries, bolded key terms and principles, a glossary, and annotated reading lists. Short, lively and accessible, the debate showcases diverse and cutting-edge work on free will. As per Saul Smilansky’s foreword, Kane and Sartorio, "present the readers with two things at once: an introduction to the traditional free will problem; and a demonstration of what a great yet very much alive and relevant philosophical problem is like." Key Features: Covers major concepts, views and arguments about free will in an engaging format Accessible style and pedagogical features for students and general readers Cutting-edge contributions by preeminent scholars on free will.
Author : Derk Pereboom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199685516
Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original, forward-looking conception of moral responsibility. He argues that although we may not possess the kind of free will that is normally considered necessary for moral responsibility, this does not jeopardize our sense of ourselves as agents, or a robust sense of achievement and meaning in life.
Author : Daniel Cohen,Nick Trakakis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443810760
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 perspectives from philosophers who have made significant contributions to this debate over recent years, including Derk Pereboom, Robert Kane, Ishtiyaque Haji, Michael McKenna, John Martin Fischer, David Widerker and Saul Smilansky. The emphasis in these essays is not merely on free will, but on allied notions such as moral responsibility, moral obligation, fairness and meaningfulness, and on whether any room can be made for these notions in a deterministic or an indeterministic universe.
Author : Paul Russell,Oisin Deery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199733392
This collection provides a selection of the most essential contributions to the contemporary free will debate. Among the issues discussed and debated are skepticism and naturalism, alternate possibilities, the consequence argument, libertarian metaphysics, illusionism and revisionism, optimism and pessimism, neuroscience and free will, and experimental philosophy.