Free Will and Luck

Name: Free Will and Luck
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ISBN: 9780195305043

ISBN-10: 0195305043

ISBN-13: 9780195305043

Edition: 2006

Authors: Alfred R. Mele

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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 areconvinced that free will is incompatible with determinism (incompatibilists), and the other for readers who are convinced of the opposite (compatibilists). Luck poses problems for all believers in free will, and…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 8.39" wide x 5.71" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.880




Introduction



A Problem about Luck for Libertarians



A Modest Libertarian Proposal



Deciding, the Time of Action, and Free Will



Agents' Abilities



Free Will and Neuroscience



Conceptual Matters



Libet's Work



Free Will



Further Testing



Conclusion



Libertarianism, Luck, and Control



A Task for Libertarians



Kane on Luck and Control



O'Connor on Active Power



Clarke on Agent Causation



Persisting Intentions and Control



Luck Remains a Problem



Some Recent History



Conclusion



Frankfurt-style Cases, Luck, and Soft Libertarianism



Introducing Frankfurt-style Cases and Clarifying PAP



A Frankfurt-style Story and Alternative Possibilities



Soft Libertarianism and Frankfurt-style Cases



A Daring Soft Libertarian Response to Present Luck



Leeway



Luck and Modest Libertarianism



Daring Soft Libertarianism



Daring Soft Libertarianism and the Problem of Present Luck



Objections and Replies



Little Agents



Conclusion



Compatibilism: Objections and Replies



The Consequence Argument



The Manipulation Argument



The No-Chance Idea Introduced



Fischer and Ravizza on Moral Responsibility



Application to the No-Chance Idea, Proposition 2



Semicompatibilism and Traditional Compatibilism



My Compatibilist Proposal: Objections and Replies



A History-Sensitive Compatibilism



Dennett's Critique



Arpaly's Critique



Kapitan's Critique and the Zygote Argument



Conclusion



Conclusion



Compatibilist and Libertarian Sufficient Conditions for Free Action



Two Thought Experiments



Conclusion


References


Index