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Justifying blame : why free will matters and why it does not / Maureen Sie.

By:

Sie, Maureen, 1966- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Value inquiry book series ; v. 166. | Value inquiry book series. Studies in applied ethics.Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005Description: xix, 132 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9042017449
9789042017443

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DDC classification:

LOC classification:

BJ1451 .S53 2005

Partial contents:

Editorial foreword / by Gerhold K. Becker -- Foreword / by Paul Russell -- Responsibility, determinism, and freedom -- Practical compatibilism and ultimacy pessimism -- Freedom and blameworthy actions -- Blameworthy actions and normative disagreements -- Ultimacy pessimism and the question of authority -- Glossary -- --

Editorial foreword / Gerhold K. Becker -- Foreword / Paul Russell -- 1. Responsibility, determinism, and freedom -- 2. Practical compatibilism and ultimacy pessimism -- 3. Freedom and blameworthy actions -- 4. Blameworthy actions and normative disagreements -- 5. Ultimacy pessimism and the question of authority.

Review: "This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary, everyday wrongs each of us commits, not on the extra-ordinary, "morally monstrous-like" crimes and weak-willed actions of some."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	North Campus North Campus Main Collection	170 SIE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A266810B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120) and index.

"This book shows why we can justify blaming people for their wrong actions even if free will turns out not to exist. Contrary to most contemporary thinking, we do this by focusing on the ordinary, everyday wrongs each of us commits, not on the extra-ordinary, "morally monstrous-like" crimes and weak-willed actions of some."--BOOK JACKET.

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