Moral Responsibility And Alternative Possibilities

Author : Michael McKenna
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351777513
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( 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.

Author : David Widerker
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754656982
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195179552
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( 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.

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316583759
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( 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.

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721569
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( 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.

Author : David Widerker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315248660
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( 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.

Author : Kevin Timpe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441115048
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( 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 166 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.

Author : Derk Pereboom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521029961
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( 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.

Author : Daniel James Speak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( 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:

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1557868573
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( 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.