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Living without Free Will

by Derk Pereboom

  • Hardback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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Most people assume that, even though some degenerative or criminal behavior may be caused by influences beyond our control, ordinary human actions are not similarly generated, but rather are freely chosen, and we can be praiseworthy or blameworthy for them. A less popular and more radical claim is that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform. It is this hard determinist stance that Derk Pereboom articulates in Living Without Free Will. Pereboom argues that our best scientific theories 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.
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  • Author

    Derk Pereboom

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    February 2001

  • Weight

    550g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521791984

  • ISBN-10

    0521791987

  • Eden Code

    4575442

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