Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Volume XXIX

by French, Peter A.; Wettstein, Howard K.; Fischer, John Martin

• ISBN13: 9781405138109
• ISBN10: 1405138106
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-19
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The essays in this volume explore various issues pertaining to human agency, such as the relationship between free will and causal determinism, and the nature and conditions of moral responsibility. The authors build on and extend some of the very best work on this set of topics. The debates are lively and vigorous, and connections are forged between abstract philosophical theorizing and applied work in neuroscience and even criminal law. This volume should be of interest to philosophers and theorists interested in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and the law.

Author Biography

John Martin Fischer earned his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Stanford University in 1975, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University in 1982. He has written on such topics as free will, causal determinism, theological determinism, moral responsibility, abortion, death, immortality, and the meaning of life. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Free Will: An Essay of Control (Blackwell, 1994); and (with Mark Ravizza, S.J.) Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (1998). A selection of his papers will be published in My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility (forthcoming 2005).

Table of Contents

Can We Ever Be Really, Truly, Ultimately, Free?
Mark Bernstein	1	(12)
On an Argument for the Impossibility of Moral Responsibility
Randolph Clarke	13	(12)
Deliberation and Metaphysical Freedom
E.J. Coffman and Ted A. Warfield	25	(20)
Alienation, Autonomy, and the Self
Laura Waddell Ekstrom	45	(23)
Neurobiology, Neuroimaging, and Free Will
Walter Glannon	68	(15)
Frankfurt-Style Counterexamples and Begging the Question
Stewart Goetz	83	(23)
Freedom, Obligation, and Responsibility: Prospects for a Unifying Theory
Ishtiyaque Haji	106	(20)
Moral Responsibility and Buffered Alternatives
David P. Hunt	126	(20)
Decisions, Intentions, and Free Will
Alfred R. Mele	146	(17)
Where Frankfurt and Strawson Meet
Michael McKenna	163	(18)
Freedom, Responsibility and the Challenge of Situationism
Dana K. Nelkin	181	(26)
Freedom with a Human Face
Timothy O'Connor	207	(21)
Defending Hard Incompatibilism
Derk Pereboom	228	(20)
Free Will and Respect for Persons
Saul Smilansky	248	(14)
PAPistry: Another Defense
Daniel Speak	262	(7)
The Trouble with Tracing
Manuel Vargas	269	(23)
Blameworthiness, Non-robust Alternatives, and the Principle of Alternative Expectations
David Widerker	292	(15)
More on "Ought" Implies "Can" and the Principle of Alternate Possibilities
Gideon Yaffe	307