Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities
Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities

Author: Michael McKenna

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1351777513

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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
Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities

Author: David Widerker

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780754656982

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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.

Free Will
Free Will

Author: Kevin Timpe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2008-07-23

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1441115048

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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.

Perspectives on Moral Responsibility
Perspectives on Moral Responsibility

Author: John Martin Fischer

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1501721569

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Explores aspects of responsibility, including moral accountability; hierarchy, rationality, and the real self; and ethical responsibility and alternative possibilities.

My Way
My Way

Author: John Martin Fischer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-03-02

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0195179552

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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
Responsibility and Control

Author: John Martin Fischer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-10-13

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1316583759

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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.

Hard Luck
Hard Luck

Author: Neil Levy

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011-06-30

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0199601380

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The concept of luck plays an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility. Neil Levy presents an original account of luck and argues that it undermines our freedom and moral responsibility no matter whether determinism is true or not.

Living Without Free Will
Living Without Free Will

Author: Derk Pereboom

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0521029961

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Argues that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible for our actions.

Building Better Beings
Building Better Beings

Author: Manuel Vargas

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 019969754X

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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 Metasphysics of Free Will
The Metasphysics of Free Will

Author: John Martin Fischer

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1995-10-09

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1557868573

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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.