Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions

This major new book by a leading philosopher of moral responsibility and free will provides an account in how we can and should respond to wrongdoing if we are doubtful about how free our human agency really is.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: Challenges to Anger


• 2: The Stance of Moral Protest


• 3: Defensive Harm and Measured Aggression


• 4: Crime, Protection, and Compassion


• 5: Forgiveness as Renunciation of Moral Protest


• 6: Love and Freedom


• 7: Religion and Hope

About the author

Derk Pereboom (Ph.D. UCLA) is the Susan Linn Sage Professor in the Philosophy Department at Cornell University and Senior Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. His areas of research include free will and moral responsibility, philosophy of mind, and early modern philosophy, especially Kant. He is the author of Living without Free Will (Cambridge 2001), Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism (Oxford 2011), Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life (Oxford 2014). He has published articles on free will and moral responsibility, consciousness and physicalism, nonreductive materialism, and on Kant's metaphysics and epistemology.

Summary

This major new book by a leading philosopher of moral responsibility and free will provides an account in how we can and should respond to wrongdoing if we are doubtful about how free our human agency really is.

Product details

• Authors: Derk Pereboom, Derk (Susan Linn Sage Professor Pereboom, Prof Derk (Susan Linn Sage Professor Pereboom, Pereboom Derk
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780192846006
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284600-6
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology: emotions, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy