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"The essays in this book are excellent. Some of the older ones are classics, and the most recent ones provide new and important insight into one of the most significant and plausible theories of moral responsibility of all time.... These essays, and Fischer's writings on free will and moral responsibility more generally, rank among the very best on this topic ever."--Derk Pereboom, Ethics
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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 responsible for one's behavior is a species of the value of artistic self-expression.
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"The essays in this book are excellent. Some of the older ones are classics, and the most recent ones provide new and important insight into one of the most significant and plausible theories of moral responsibility of all time.... These essays, and Fischer's writings on free will and moral responsibility more generally, rank among the very best on this topic ever."--Derk Pereboom, Ethics
Product Description
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 responsible for one's behavior is a species of the value of artistic self-expression.
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Free Will, Harry Frankfurt, John Martin Fischer, New York, Forest Ranger, Cambridge University Press, Peter van Inwagen, Journal of Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Michael Ross, Philosophical Review, Recent Work, Rule Beta, Eleonore Stump, Principle of Alternative Possibilities, Mark Ravizza, Derk Pereboom, Gary Watson, Harvard University Press, United Way, Philosophical Studies, David Widerker, Robert Kane, Penned-In Sharks, Robert Nozick Browse Sample Pages:
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asymmetric principle, moral appraisability, volves alternative possibilities, flicker strategy, incompatibilistic result, flicker theorist, causally deterministic world, actual sequence rules, causal determinism rules, complex omissions, causal determinism obtains, mere causal determination, causal road, rules out moral responsibility, deontic morality, regulative control, originative value, responsibility and alternative possibilities, counterfactual intervention, dialectical stalemate, counterfactual intervener, mechanism individuation, compatibilist analysis, grounds moral responsibility, causal indeterminism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Free Will, Harry Frankfurt, John Martin Fischer, New York, Forest Ranger, Cambridge University Press, Peter van Inwagen, Journal of Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Michael Ross, Philosophical Review, Recent Work, Rule Beta, Eleonore Stump, Principle of Alternative Possibilities, Mark Ravizza, Derk Pereboom, Gary Watson, Harvard University Press, United Way, Philosophical Studies, David Widerker, Robert Kane, Penned-In Sharks, Robert Nozick Browse Sample Pages:
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