Paul Russell (Professor in Philosophy, Professor in Philosophy, Uni

Limits of Free Will

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains a selection of papers concerning free will and moral responsibility. Among the topics covered, as they relate to these problems, are the challenge of skepticism; moral sentiment and moral capacity; necessity and the metaphysics of causation; practical reason; free will and art; fatalism and the limits of agency; and our metaphysical attitudes of optimism and pessimism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780190627607
• ISBN-10: 0190627603
• Artikelnr.: 48023012

Autorenporträt

Paul Russell is Professor in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and Lund University. His publications include Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 1995); The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion (Oxford University Press, 2008); and editor of The Philosophy of Free Will (Oxford University, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
I. Free Will and Causal Relations
1. Sorabji and the Dilemma of Determinism
[With an Addendum, 2016]
2. Causation, Compulsion and Compatibilism
II. Responsibility, Skepticism and Moral Sentiment
3. Strawson's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility
4. Responsibility and the Condition of Moral Sense
5. Moral Sense and the Foundations of Responsibility
6. Responsibility, Naturalism and 'the Morality System
III. Practical Reason, Art and Manipulation
7. Practical Reason and Motivational Skepticism
8. Free Will, Art and Morality
9. Selective Hard Compatibilism: Manipulation and Moral Standing
IV. Pessimism and the Limits of Free Will
10. Compatibilist-Fatalism: Finitude, Pessimism and the Limits of Free Will
11. Pessimists, Pollyannas and the New Compatibilism
12. Free Will Pessimism
List of related publications
Index