Merit, Meaning, and Human Bondage : An Essay on Free Will
Nomy. Arpaly
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (158 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Praise and Blame: Toward a New Compatibilism; CHAPTER TWO: Reason Responsiveness in a Deterministic World; CHAPTER THREE: Ought Implies Can? An Argument from Epistemology; INTERLUDE: The Science Fiction of Mind Design; CHAPTER FOUR: When Cheap Will Just Won't Do; Bibliography; Index. - Perhaps everything we think, feel, and do is determined, and humans--like stones or clouds--are slaves to the laws of nature. Would that be a terrible state? Philosophers who take the incompatibilist position think so, arguing that a deterministic world would be one without moral responsibility and perhaps without true love, meaningful art, and real rationality. But compatibilists and semicompatibilists argue that determinism need not worry us. As long as our actions stem, in an appropriate way, from us, or respond in some way to reasons, our actions are meaningful and can be judged on thei
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| ISBN | 0691124337. - 9780691124339
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