Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life

Name: Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life
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ISBN: 9780199685516

ISBN-10: 0199685517

ISBN-13: 9780199685516

Edition: 2014

Authors: Derk Pereboom

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Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of moral responsibility. He argues that if determinism were true we would not be morally responsible in the key basic - desert sense at issue in the free will debate, but that we would also lack this kind of moral responsibility ifindeterminism were true and the causes of our actions were exclusively states or events. It is possible that if we were undetermined agent - causes - if we as substances had the power to cause decisions without being causally determined to cause them - we would have this kind of free will. Butalthough our being undetermined agent causes has not been ruled out as a coherent possibility, it's not credible…

Book details

List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2/27/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.49" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English