Moral responsibility
Subtitle: the ways of scepticism
By: Carlos J. Moya.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Responsibility; Free will and determinism; Social ethics; Skepticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: scepticism about; title: Moral responsibility (SMR); title: Determinism and alternative possibilities (SMR's premises A and B); title: Determinism (SMR's premise A); title: Does determinism preclude alternative possibilities?; title: Alternative possibilities : conditional analyses; title: The consequence argument and rule beta; title: Defending incompatibilism; title: Incompatibilism without transfer; title: Alternative possibilities and moral responsibility (SMR's premise B); title: Frankfurt cases searching for alternatives; title: Criticisms of the preceding strategy : the robustness; title: Objection; title: The dilemma defence; title: Actual blockage cases; title: Robustness, determinism, and the dilemma defence; title: Rescuing the flicker strategy; title: Robust (exempting) alternatives in Frankfurt cases; title: Self-trapping cases; title: Luther cases; title: Moral responsibility and control (SMR's premise B); title: Ultimate control and determinism; title: Classical compatibilism : actions, desires and the self; title: Frankfurt's view of freedom of the will; title: Frankfurt's view of moral responsibility; title: Value-based accounts of control : Watson, Wolf; title: Reasons-responsiveness and ownership : Fischer and Ravizza; title: Indeterminism and moral responsibility (SMR's premise C); title: Alternative possibilities, ultimate control and indeterminism; title: Kane's conception of free will; title: Difficulties for Kane's libertarianism; title: Overcoming scepticism : belief and moral responsibility; title: Scepticism : diagnosis and outline of an anti-sceptical proposal; title: Belief, control and responsibility; title: Evaluative beliefs and moral responsibility; title: Evaluative beliefs and alternative possibilities; title: Indeterminism, belief and moral responsibility.