Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Herausgeber: Caruso, Gregg D.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781498516211
• ISBN-10: 1498516211
• Artikelnr.: 42202819

Autorenporträt

Edited by Gregg D. Caruso - Contributions by 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 St

Inhaltsangabe

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