Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Caruso, Gregg D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739177327
• Artikelnr.: 39046562

Autorenporträt

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).

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 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