Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments - Hardcover

Wallace, R. Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674766229 ISBN 13: 9780674766228

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

R. Jay Wallace advances a powerful and sustained argument against the common view that accountability requires freedom of will. Instead, he maintains, the fairness of holding people responsible depends on their rational competence: the power to grasp moral reasons and to control their behavior accordingly. He shows how these forms of rational competence are compatible with determinism. At the same time, giving serious consideration to incompatibilist concerns, Wallace develops a compelling diagnosis of the common assumption that freedom is necessary for responsibility.

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R. Jay Wallace is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674766229
• ISBN 13: 9780674766228
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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