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Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility (Paperback)
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Making Sense of Freedom and Responsibility (Paperback)
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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
blameworthy, but not when they are praiseworthy. 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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