Living Without Free Will

Name: Living Without Free Will
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521029964
Price: 4700 KES
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ISBN: 9780521029964

by Derk Pereboom

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

ISBN-10 0521029961

ISBN-13 9780521029964

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 2nd, 2006

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 386 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.40 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy Philosophy

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Derk 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. In addition, adopting this perspective would provide significant benefit for our lives.

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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