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Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
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Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
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Dana Kay Nelkin presents a simple and natural account of freedom
and moral responsibility which responds to the great variety of
challenges to the idea that we are free and responsible, before
ultimately reaffirming our conception of ourselves as agents.
Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility begins with a defense of
the rational abilities view, according to which one is responsible
for an action if and only if one acts with the ability to recognize
and act for good reasons. The view is compatibilist - that is, on
the view defended, responsibility is compatible with determinism -
and one of its striking features is a certain asymmetry: it
requires the ability to do otherwise for responsibility when
actions are praiseworthy, but not when they are blameworthy. In
defending and elaborating the view, Nelkin questions long-held
assumptions such as those concerning the relation between fairness
and blame and the nature of so-called reactive attitudes such as
resentment and forgiveness. Her argument not only fits with a
metaphysical picture of causation - agent-causation - often assumed
to be available only to incompatibilist accounts, but receives
positive support from the intuitively appealing Ought Implies Can
Principle, and establishes a new interpretation of freedom and
moral responsibility that dovetails with a compelling account of
our inescapable commitments as rational agents.
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