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Book SynopsisThis is a selection of essays on moral responsibility that represent the major components of John Martin Fischer''s overall approach to freedom of the will and moral responsibility. The collection exhibits the overall structure of Fischer''s view and shows how the various elements fit together to form a comprehensive framework for analyzing free will and moral responsibility. The topics include deliberation and practical reasoning, freedom of the will, freedom of action, various notions of control, and moral accountability. The essays seek to provide a foundation for our practices of holding each other (and ourselves) morally and legally accountable for our behavior. A crucial move is the distinction between two kinds of control. According to Fischer, regulative control involves freedom to choose and do otherwise (alternative possibilities), whereas guidance control does not. Fischer contends that guidance control is all the freedom we need to be morally responsible agents. Further, he
Trade ReviewThe essays in this volume, together with Fischer's other pieces, have played a major role in shaping the contemporary debate in the metaphysics of free will...one can ill afford to ignore the wealth of wisdom in the story of responsibility that Fischer carefully crafts. * Ishtiyaque Haji Ethical Perspectives *
Whether or not one ultimately agrees with the relevant positions that Fischer defends, one can ill afford to ignore the wealth of wisdom in the story of responsibility that Fischer carefully crafts * Ishtiyaque Haji, Ethical Perspectives *
Table of Contents1: Introduction: A Framework for Moral Responsibility 2: Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities 3: Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility 4: Responsibility for Omissions (with Mark Ravizza) 5: Responsibility and Self-Expression 6: Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism 7: Responsibility and Agent-Causation 8: The Transfer of Nonresponsibility 9: Transfer Principles and Moral Responsibility (with Eleanore Stump)
