Living without free will

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Living without free will

Derk Pereboom

(Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa)

Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references(p. 215-223) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Most people assume that, even though some degenerative or criminal behavior may be caused by influences beyond our control, ordinary human actions are not similarly generated, but rather are freely chosen, and we can be praiseworthy or blameworthy for them. A less popular and more radical claim is that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform. It is this hard determinist stance that Derk Pereboom articulates in Living Without Free Will. Pereboom argues that our best scientific theories have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform, and that because of this, we are not morally responsible for any of them. He seeks to defend the view that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible, and furthermore, that adopting this perspective would provide significant benefit for our lives.

目次

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Hard incompatibilism
  • 1. Alternative possibilities and causal histories
  • 2. Coherence objections to libertarianism
  • 3. Empirical objections to agent-causal libertarianism
  • 4. Problems for compatibilism
  • 5. The contours of hard incompatibilism
  • 6. Hard incompatibilism and criminal behavior
  • 7. Hard incompatibilism and meaning in life
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA52066377
  • ISBN
    • 0521791987
  • LCCN
    00059877
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge, U.K. ; New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxiii, 231 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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