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Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Volume XXIX

Peter A. French (Edited by), Fischer (Author), Howard K. Wettstein (Edited by), John Martin Fischer (Guest editor)

9781405138109, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 1 December 2005

336 pages
22.9 x 15.4 x 2 cm, 0.535 kg

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.

1. Can We Ever Be Really, Truly, Ultimately, Free?
Mark Bernstein 1

2. On an Argument for the Impossibility of Moral Responsibility
Randolph Clark 13

3. Deliberation and Metaphysical Freedom
E. J. Coffman and Ted A. Warfield 25

4. Alienation, Autonomy, and the Self
Laura Waddell Ekstrom 45

5. Neurobiology, Neuroimaging, and Free Will
Walter Glannon 68

6. Frankfurt-Style Counterexamples and Begging the Question
Steward Goetz 83

7. Freedom, Obligation, and Responsibility: Prospects for a Unifying Theory
Ishtiyaque Haji 106

8. Moral Responsibility and Buffered Alternatives
David P. Hunt 126

9. Decisions, Intentions, and Free Will
Alfred R. Mele 146

10. Where Frankfurt and Strawson Meet
Michael McKenna 163

11. Freedom, Responsibility and the Challenge of Situationism
Dana K. Nelkin 181

12. Freedom with a Human Face
Timothy O'Connor 207

13. Defending Hard Incompatibilism
Derk Pereboom 228

14. Free Will and Respect for Persons
Saul Smilansky 248

15. PAPistry: Another Defense
Daniel Speak 262

16. The Trouble with Tracing
Manuel Vargas 269

17. Blameworthiness, Non-robust Alternatives, and the Principle of Alternative Expectations
David Widerker 292

18. More on "Ought" Implies "Can" and the Principle of Alternate Possibilities 307
Gideon Yaffe 307 

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
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