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Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life (Paperback)
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Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original conception of
moral responsibility. He argues that if determinism were true we
would not be morally responsible in the key basic-desert sense at
issue in the free will debate, but that we would also lack this
kind of moral responsibility if indeterminism were true and the
causes of our actions were exclusively states or events. It is
possible that if we were undetermined agent causes-if we as
substances had the power to cause decisions without being causally
determined to cause them-we would have this kind of free will. But
although our being undetermined agent causes has not been ruled out
as a coherent possibility, it's not credible given our best
physical theories. Pereboom then contends that a conception of life
without the free will required for moral responsibility in the
basic-desert sense would nevertheless allow for a different,
forward-looking conception of moral responsibility. He also argues
that our lacking this sort of free will would not jeopardize our
sense of ourselves as agents capable of rational deliberation, that
it is compatible with adequate measures for dealing with crime and
other threatening behavior, and that it allows for a robust sense
of achievement and meaning in life. Pereboom's arguments for this
position are reconfigured relative to those presented in Living
without Free Will (2001), important objections to these arguments
are answered, and the development of the positive view is
significantly embellished.
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