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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 July 2009
      19 February 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511498824
      9780521791984
      9780521029964
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498824
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.505kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.389kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Logic, Ethics, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Logic, Ethics, Philosophy
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    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    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.

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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 in Pereboom's good, optimistic work on what a world without free will can be like.’

    Source: Oxford Academic Journals

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