Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-870936-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
naturalistically adequate account of of responsible agency, blame, and desert.
Three ideas are central to Vargas' account: the agency cultivation model, circumstantialism about powers, and revisionism about responsibility and free will. On Vargas' account, responsibility norms and practices are justified by their effects. In particular, the agency cultivation model holds that responsibility practices help mold us into creatures that respond to moral considerations. Moreover, the abilities that matter for responsibility and free will are not metaphysically prior features
of agents in isolation from social contexts. Instead, they are functions of both agents and their normatively structured contexts. This is the idea of circumstantialism about the powers required for responsibility. Third, Vargas argues that an adequate theory of responsibility will be revisionist, or
at odds with important strands of ordinary convictions about free will and moral responsibility. Building Better Beings provides a compelling and state-of-the-art defense of moral responsibility in the face of growing philosophical and scientific skepticism about free will and moral responsibility.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik