John Lemos

Free Will's Value (eBook, PDF)

Criminal Justice, Pride, and Love

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000874150
• Artikelnr.: 67495905

Autorenporträt

John Lemos is the Joseph McCabe Professor of Philosophy at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is the author of Commonsense Darwinism: Evolution, Morality, and the Human Condition (2008), Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism (2013), and A Pragmatic Defense of Libertarian Free Will (2018). He has also published over 30 articles in various philosophical journals such as The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Dialectica, Law and Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Philosophia, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Problems for Compatibilism: Manipulation Arguments and the Argument from
Unfairness
2. Robert Kane's Libertarian Theory
3. Bruce Waller on Luck, Control, and the Evolutionary Implausibility of
Libertarianism
4. More Worries About Luck and Control: Pereboom and Caruso
5. Can Libertarians Reasonably Embrace Reductive Physicalism? Moore's
Challenge
6. The Indeterministic Weightings View of Libertarian Free Will
7. Libertarian Free Will and Criminal Justice: Part One
8. Libertarian Free Will and Criminal Justice: Part Two
9. In Defense of the Axiological Justification for Belief in Libertarian
Free Will
10. Fulfillment, Justified Pride, and Libertarian Free Will
11. Libertarian Free Will and Love's Value
Conclusion
Bibliogrpahy
Index