Merit, Meaning, and Human Bondage : : An Essay on Free Will / / Nomy Arpaly.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Praise and Blame: Toward a New Compatibilism
- 2 Reason Responsiveness in a Deterministic World
- 3 Ought Implies Can? An Argument from Epistemology
- INTERLUDE. The Science Fiction of Mind Design
- 4 When Cheap Will Just Won't Do
- Bibliography
- Index