John Martin Fischer

Deep Control

Essays on Free Will and Value

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection of essays ¿ a follow up to My Way and Our Stories ¿ John Martin Fischer defends the contention that moral responsibility is associated with "deep control". Fischer defines deep control as the middle ground between two untenable extreme positions: "superficial control" and "total control".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780199354139
• ISBN-10: 0199354138
• Artikelnr.: 39092599

Autorenporträt

John Martin Fischer received his BA and MA in philosophy from Stanford University, and his PhD in philosophy from Cornell. He has taught at Yale, UCLA, and Santa Clara University. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, where he holds a UC President's Chair.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Deep Control: The Middle Way
Part One: An Actual-Sequence Approach to Moral Responsibility
2. The Frankfurt Cases: The Moral of the Stories
3. Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Frankfurt: A Reply to Vihvelin
4. The Importance of Frankfurt-Style Argument
5. Blame and Avoidability: a Reply to Otsuka
6. Indeterminism and Control: An Approach to the Problem of Luck
Part Two: The Middle Path: Guidance Control
7. The Direct Argument: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
8. Conditional Freedom and the Normative Approach to Moral Responsibility
9. Judgment-Sensitivity and the Value of Freedom
10. Sourcehood: Playing the Cards that Are Dealt You
11. Guidance Control
12. The Triumph of Tracing