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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.

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Editorial Foreword by Gerhold K. Becker Foreword by Paul Russell Preface ONE Responsibility, Determinism, and Freedom TWO Practical Compatibilism and Ultimacy Pessimism THREE Freedom and Blameworthy Actions FOUR Blameworthy Actions and Normative Disagreements FIVE Ultimacy Pessimism and the Question of Authority Works Cited Glossary About the Author Index

Justifying Blame: Why Free Will Matters and Why it Does Not

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 01/01/2005
      ISBN13: 9789042017443, 978-9042017443
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Editorial Foreword by Gerhold K. Becker Foreword by Paul Russell Preface ONE Responsibility, Determinism, and Freedom TWO Practical Compatibilism and Ultimacy Pessimism THREE Freedom and Blameworthy Actions FOUR Blameworthy Actions and Normative Disagreements FIVE Ultimacy Pessimism and the Question of Authority Works Cited Glossary About the Author Index

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