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My Way - Essays on Moral Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
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My Way - Essays on Moral Responsibility (Hardcover, New)
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This is a selection of essays on moral responsibility that
represent the major components of John Martin Fischer's overall
approach to freedom of the will and moral responsibility. The
collection exhibits the overall structure of Fischer's view and
shows how the various elements fit together to form a comprehensive
framework for analyzing free will and moral responsibility.
The topics include deliberation and practical reasoning, freedom
of the will, freedom of action, various notions of control, and
moral accountability. The essays seek to provide a foundation for
our practices of holding each other (and ourselves) morally and
legally accountable for our behavior. A crucial move is the
distinction between two kinds of control. According to Fischer,
"regulative control" involves freedom to choose and do otherwise
("alternative possibilities"), whereas "guidance control" does not.
Fischer contends that guidance control is all the freedom we need
to be morally responsible agents. Further, he contends that such
control is fully compatible with causal determinism. Additionally,
Fischer argues that we do not need genuine access to alternative
possibilities in order for there to be a legitimate point to
practical reasoning.
Fischer's overall framework contains an argument for the
contention that guidance control, and not regulative control, is
associated with moral responsibility, a sketch of a comprehensive
theory of moral responsibility (that ties together responsibility
for actions, omissions, consequences, and character), and an
account of the value of moral responsibility. On this account, the
value of exhibiting freedom (of the relevant sort) and thus being
morally responsiblefor one's behavior is a species of the value of
artistic self-expression.
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