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Part I: Building blocks. 1. Folk convictions -- 2. Doubts about libertarianism -- 3. Nihilism and revisionism -- 4. Building a better theory -- Part II. A theory of moral responsibility. 5. The primacy of reasons -- 6. Justifying the practice -- 7. Responsible agency -- 8. Blame and desert -- 9. History and manipulation --10. Some conclusions.
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Keywords | Responsibility Free will and determinism Agent (Philosophy Ethics |
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Reprint years | 2013, 2015 |
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Call number | BJ1451.V37 2013 |
ISBN(s) | 9780199697540 019969754X 9780198709367 0198709366 |
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Folk Convictions
The chapter argues for three ideas: (1) we have diverse intuitions, and some of those intuitions are plausibly understood as compatibilist, and others as incompatibilist, and (2) this result suggests that no theory will accommodate all intuitions, but (3) the problem of intuitional fit is ... see more
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