Free Will and the Law

Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives

by McCay, Allan

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Free Will and the Law : New Perspectives.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:Milton
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781317132974, 1317132971
  • oclc:on1099922404

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Libertarian free will -- 2 Making sense of libertarian free will: consciousness, science, and laws of nature -- 3 Conscious gestalts, apposite responses, and libertarian freedom -- 4 Occam's shopper: the costs of plausible reasoning -- 5 The luck argument against libertarianism -- 6 Frankfurt-style examples, impermissibility, and reasonsresponsiveness -- PART II Libertarian free will and the law -- 7 How judges are free to decide cases -- 8 Responsible agency in the criminal process -- 9 Hodgson on retribution -- 10 Why capacity matters: is it fair to treat people like that, like that, for that? -- 11 Mitigation is difficult: a moral evaluation of a mitigation practice at sentencing -- 12 David Hodgson's theory of plausible legal reasoning -- Index.

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