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Building Better Beings - A Theory of Moral Responsibility (Paperback)
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Building Better Beings - A Theory of Moral Responsibility (Paperback)
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Building Better Beings presents a new theory of moral
responsibility. Beginning with a discussion of ordinary convictions
about responsibility and free will and their implications for a
philosophical theory, Manuel Vargas argues that no theory can do
justice to all the things we want from a theory of free will and
moral responsibility. He goes on to show how we can nevertheless
justify our responsibility practices and provide a normatively and
naturalistically adequate account of of responsible agency, blame,
and desert. Three ideas are central to Vargas' account: the agency
cultivation model, circumstantialism about powers, and revisionism
about responsibility and free will. On Vargas' account,
responsibility norms and practices are justified by their effects.
In particular, the agency cultivation model holds that
responsibility practices help mold us into creatures that respond
to moral considerations. Moreover, the abilities that matter for
responsibility and free will are not metaphysically prior features
of agents in isolation from social contexts. Instead, they are
functions of both agents and their normatively structured contexts.
This is the idea of circumstantialism about the powers required for
responsibility. Third, Vargas argues that an adequate theory of
responsibility will be revisionist, or at odds with important
strands of ordinary convictions about free will and moral
responsibility. Building Better Beings provides a compelling and
state-of-the-art defense of moral responsibility in the face of
growing philosophical and scientific skepticism about free will and
moral responsibility.
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