Hard luck
Subtitle: how luck undermines free will and moral responsibility
By: Neil Levy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780199601387
Subjects: Fortune; Moral and ethical aspects; Responsibility; Free will and determinism
Description: The concept of luck plays an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility. Neil Levy presents an original account of luck and argues that it undermines our freedom and moral responsibility no matter whether determinism is true or not.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: An account of luck; title: Luck and Libertarianism; title: The luck problem for Compatibilists; title: The epistemic dimensions of control; title: Akratic freedom?; title: The retreat to the inner citadel; title: Quality of Will theories and history-insensitive compatibilism.