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Living without free will

Author: Derk Pereboom
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series: Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Argues that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible for our actions.

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Derk Pereboom
ISBN: 0521791987 9780521791984
OCLC Number: 44650914
Description: xxiii, 231 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Responsibility: Derk Pereboom.
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'... this is a very fine book. All philosophers who wish to argue that there are free human beings will need to deal with Pereboom's objections. And it they cannot refute them, they can take comfort Read more...

 
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