John Lemos

A Pragmatic Approach to Libertarian Free Will

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the kind of free will required for moral responsibility and just desert is libertarian free will. It explains and defends Robert Kane's conception of libertarian free will, arguing that a suitably modified Kanean model of free will can be shown to be conceptually coherent.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138498037
• ISBN-10: 1138498033
• Artikelnr.: 52397453

Autorenporträt

John Lemos is the Joseph McCabe Professor of Philosophy at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is the author of Commonsense Darwinism: Evolution, Morality, and the Human Condition (2008) and Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism: A Philosophical Dialogue (2013). He has also published over 30 articles in various philosophical journals, such as The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Dialectica, Law and Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Philosophia, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Kane's Libertarian Theory 3. Libertarianism, Luck, and
Manipulation Arguments 4. Kanean Libertarianism Examined 5. A Consideration
of Alternative Event-causal Libertarian Models of Basic Free Actions 6.
Moral Responsibility Denial and the Problem of Punishment 7. Libertarian
Free Will and Moral Obligation 8. Hardheartedness and Libertarianism 9.
Conclusion