This 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 contends that such
control is fully compatible with causal determinism. Additionally,
Fischer argues that we do not need genuine access to alternative
possibilities in order for there to be a legitimate point to practical
reasoning. Fischer's overall framework contains an argument for the
contention that guidance control, and not regulative control, is
associated with moral responsibility, a sketch of a comprehensive
theory of moral responsibility (that ties together responsibility for
actions, omissions, consequences, and character), and an account of
the value of moral responsibility. On this account, the value of
exhibiting freedom (of the relevant sort) and thus being morally
responsible for one's behavior is a species of the value of artistic
self-expression.
Les mer
Essays on Moral Responsibility
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780190292607
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter