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Zusatztext "There is much to like about Relative Justice . It pursues and interesting line of reasoning in a literature literally littered with rehashed arguments and stubborn dialectics." ---Matt King, Philosopher's Magazine Informationen zum Autor Tamler Sommers is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. He is the author of A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain ! a collection of interviews with philosophers and scientists. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the Believer . Klappentext "Many philosophers and social scientists have powerful! provocative ideas! and many are captivating writers. Few have both talents. Tamler Sommers is one of the few. This book is brash! fascinating! and a delight to devour."--Shaun Nichols! University of Arizona "This is a genuinely new contribution to philosophy! a breakthrough in the use of cross-cultural diversity as a way of thinking about the problem of free will and its implications. Tamler Sommers offers a radically new methodological paradigm for thinking about free will! as well as an original and significant discussion of the possibility of living without the belief in free will and moral responsibility. Sommers is a gifted author! and the book is a pleasure to read."--Saul Smilansky! University of Haifa "This is a work of very high quality--a thoughtful! informed! and novel exploration of the contemporary literature on moral responsibility."--Ronald Mallon! University of Utah Zusammenfassung Drawing on research in anthropology, psychology, and a host of other disciplines, this book argues that cross-cultural variation raises serious problems for theories that propose universally applicable conditions for moral responsibility. It develops a way of thinking about responsibility that takes cultural diversity into account....
