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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451131503321

Autore

Fischer John Martin <1952->

Titolo

My way [[electronic resource] ] : essays on moral responsibility / / John Martin Fischer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-84535-X

0-19-534628-9

1-4294-3813-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Responsibility

Free will and determinism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction, A framework for moral respondibility -- Responsibility and alternative possibilities -- Responsiveness and moral responsibility -- Responsibility for omissions -- Responsibility and self-expression -- Frankfurt-style compatibilism -- Responsibility and agent-causation -- The transfer on nonresponsibility -- Transfer principles and moral responsibility -- Free will and moral responsibility -- 'Ought-implies-can,' causal determinism, and moral responsibility -- Responsibility and manipulation.

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of John Martin Fischer's essays on free will and moral responsibility. Fischer's overall framework contains an argument for the contention that moral responsibility does not require free will in the sense that implies alternative possibilities and a sketch of a comprehensive theory of moral responsibility.