02198nam 22003492 450 991081969060332120240401121708.09780521791984(EXLCZ)9911105648562029020090309d2001|||| uy 0engur|||||||||||Living without free will /Derk PereboomCambridge :Cambridge University Press,2001.231 pages;23 cmCambridge studies in philosophy0-521-79198-7 0-511-01250-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index.Alternative possibilities and causal histories -- Coherence objections to libertarianism -- Empirical objections to agent-causal libertarianism -- Problems of compatibilism -- The contours of hard incompatibilism -- Hard compatibilism and criminal behavior -- Hard incompatibilism and meaning in life.Most people assume that, even though some degenerative or criminal behavior may be caused by influences beyond our control, ordinary human actions are not similarly generated, but rather are freely chosen, and we can be praiseworthy or blameworthy for them. A less popular and more radical claim is that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform. It is this hard determinist stance that Derk Pereboom articulates in Living Without Free Will. Pereboom argues that our best scientific theories have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform, and that because of this, we are not morally responsible for any of them. He seeks to defend the view that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible, and furthermore, that adopting this perspective would provide significant benefit for our lives.Cambridge studies in philosophy.Free will and determinismFree will and determinism.123/.5Pereboom Derk1957-615638UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910819690603321Living without free will1083278UNINA