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Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

von: Gregg D. Caruso, Susan Blackmore, Thomas W. Clark, Mark Hallett, John-Dylan Haynes, Ted Honderich, Neil Levy, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Shaun Nichols, Michael Pauen, Derk Pereboom, Susan Pockett, Maureen Sie, Saul Smilansky, Galen Strawson, Daniela Goya Tocchetto, Manuel Vargas, Benjamin Vilhauer, Bruce Waller
57,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	05.07.2013
ISBN/EAN:	9780739177327
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	344

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Titelbeschreibung

Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility investigates the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications. Skepticism about free will and moral responsibility has been on the rise in recent years. In fact, a significant number of philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists now either doubt or outright deny the existence of free will and/or moral responsibility—and the list of prominent skeptics appears to grow by the day. Given the profound importance that the concepts of free will and moral responsibility hold in our lives—in understanding ourselves, society, and the law—it is important that we explore what is behind this new wave of skepticism. It is also important that we explore the potential consequences of skepticism for ourselves and society. Edited by Gregg D. Caruso, this collection of new essays brings together an internationally recognized line-up of contributors, most of whom hold skeptical positions of some sort, to display and explore the leading arguments for free will skepticism and to debate their implications.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility is an edited collection of new essays by an internationally recognized line-up of contributors. It is aimed at readers who wish to explore the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Introduction: Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility Part 1: Philosophical Explorations: Free Will Skepticism and Its Implications Chapter 1: Skepticism about Free Will Chapter 2: The Impossibility of Ultimate Responsibility? Chapter 3: Determinism, Incompatibilism and Compatibilism, Actual Consciousness and Subjective Physical Worlds, Humanity Chapter 4: The Stubborn Illusion of Moral Responsibility Chapter 5: Be a Skeptic, Not a Metaskeptic Chapter 6: Free Will as a Case of “Crazy Ethics” Chapter 7: The Potential Dark Side of Believing in Free Will (and Related Concepts): Some Preliminary Findings Chapter 8: The People’s Problem Chapter 9: Living Without Free Will Chapter 10: If Free Will Doesn’t Exist, Neither Does Water Chapter 11: Free Will and Error Part 2: Scientific Explorations: The Behavioral, Cognitive, and Neurosciences Chapter 12: The Complex Network of Intentions Chapter 13: Experience and Autonomy: Why Consciousness Does and Doesn’t Matter Chapter 14: What Does the Brain Know and When Does It Know It? Chapter 15: If Free Will Did Not Exist, It Would be Necessary to Invent It Chapter 16: Free Will, an Illusion? An Answer from a Pragmatic Sentimentalist Point of View References Index About the Contributors

Autorenportrait

Gregg D. Caruso is associate professor of philosophy and chair of the humanities department at Corning Community College, SUNY. He is author of Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will (Lexington Books, 2012).