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The Limits of Free Will (Hardcover)
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The Limits of Free Will (Hardcover)
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The Limits of Free Will contains a selection of papers concerning
free will and moral responsibility. The problems arising in this
field of philosophy, which are deeply rooted in the history of the
subject, are also intimately related to a wide range of other
fields, such as law and criminology, moral psychology, theology,
and, more recently, neuroscience. The papers included in this
collection were written and first published over a period of three
decades, although most have appeared in the past decade or so.
During this period this area of philosophy has been particularly
active and it continues to attract a great deal of interest and
attention. Among the topics covered, as they relate to these
problems, are the challenge of skepticism; moral sentiment and
moral capacity; necessity and the metaphysics of causation;
practical reason; free will and art; fatalism and the limits of
agency; moral luck, and our metaphysical attitudes of optimism and
pessimism. Some of the papers in this collection are primarily
critical in character, presenting critiques and commentary on major
works or contributions in the contemporary scene. Others are mainly
constructive, aiming to develop and articulate a distinctive
account of compatibilism. The general theory advanced, which is
described as a form of "critical compatibilism", rejects any form
of unqualified or radical skepticism but also insists that a
plausible compatibilism has significant and substantive
implications about the limits of agency and argues that this
licenses a metaphysical attitude of (modest) pessimism on this
topic. Finally, each paper in this collection is self-standing and
can be read in isolation from the others. There is, nevertheless, a
core set of themes and issues that unite and link them all
together. The collection is arranged and organized in a format that
enables the reader to appreciate and recognize these links and the
core themes that unite them.
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