Free Will and the Law

New Perspectives
Herausgeber: McCay, Allan; Sevel, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together many of the world's leading theorists of free will and philosophers of law to critically discuss the ground-breaking contribution of David Hodgson's libertarianism and its application to philosophy of law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781472481443
• ISBN-10: 1472481445
• Artikelnr.: 55322013

Autorenporträt

Allan McCay teaches at the University of Sydney Foundation Program and is a researcher at the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics at Macquarie University. He is also a lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. Michael Sevel is Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Part I: Libertarian Free Will 2. Making Sense of
Libertarian Free Will: Consciousness, Science and Laws of Nature 3.
Conscious Gestalts, Apposite Responses and Libertarian Freedom 4. Occam's
Shopper: The Costs of Plausible Reasoning 5. The Luck Argument Against
Libertarianism 6. Frankfurt-Style Examples, Impermissibility, and
Reasons-Responsiveness Part II: Libertarian Free Will and the Law 7. How
Judges are Free to Decide Cases 8. Responsible Agency in the Criminal
Process 9. Hodgson on Retribution 10. Why Capacity Matters: Is it Fair to
Treat People Like That, Like That, for That? 11. Mitigation is Difficult: A
Moral Evaluation of a Mitigation Practice at Sentencing 12. David Hodgson's
Theory of Plausible Reasoning