Against moral responsibility

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In Against Moral Responsibility, Bruce Waller launches a spirited attack on a system that is profoundly entrenched in our society and its institutions, deeply rooted in our emotions, and vigorously defended by philosophers from ancient times to the present. Waller argues that, despite the creative defenses of it by contemporary thinkers, moral responsibility cannot survive in our naturalistic-scientific system. The scientific understanding of human behavior and the causes that shape human chara…

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Full title :Against moral responsibility / Bruce N. Waller.

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Publication Date:©2011.

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Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

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Description:xi, 352 pages ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9780262016599, 0262016591
oclc:ocn707886961
LC Classification:BJ1451
Dewey Decimal:170

Moral responsibility -- The basic argument against moral responsibility -- Rescuing free will from moral responsibility -- Hierarchical free will and natural authenticity -- Moral responsibility in the gaps -- Taking responsibility -- Responsibility for the self you make -- The illusory benefits of moral responsibility -- Character-fault and blame-fault -- What does not follow from the denial of moral responsibility : living morally without moral responsibility -- The moral responsibility system -- Begging the question for moral responsibility -- Does moral responsibility promote respect -- Creative authorship without ultimate responsibility -- A world without moral responsibility -- Is it possible to eliminate moral responsibility?