Free will and moral responsibility
By: edited by Ishtiyaque Haji and Justin Caouette
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781443850520
Subjects: Free will and determinism
Description: Determinism is, roughly, the thesis that facts about the past and the laws of nature entail all truths. A venerable, age-old dilemma concerning responsibility distils to this: if either determinism is true or it is not true, we lack ""responsibility-grounding"" control. Either determinism is true or it is not true. So, we lack responsibility-grounding control. Deprived of such control, no one is ever morally responsible for anything. A number of the freshly-minted essays in this collection addr...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.