By: Derk Pereboom, Ernest Sosa (Editor), Jonathan Dancy (Editor), John Haldane (Editor), Gilbert Harman (Editor)

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In Living Without Free Will, Derk Pereboom argues that our best scientific theories indeed 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.

'... this is a very fine book. All philosophers who wish to argue that there are free human beings will need to deal with Pereboom's objections. And it they cannot refute them, they can take comfort in Pereboom's good, optimistic work on what a world without free will can be like.' Oxford Academic Journals

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hard incompatibilism
Alternative possibilities and causal histories
Coherence objections to libertarianism
Empirical objections to agent-causal libertarianism
Problems for compatibilism
The contours of hard incompatibilism
Hard incompatibilism and criminal behavior
Hard incompatibilism and meaning in life
Bibliography
Index
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ISBN: 9780521029964
ISBN-10: 0521029961
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 2nd November 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2  x 1.5
Weight (kg): 0.38