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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), and 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.
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In Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions Pereboom offers a new and wide-ranging account of what remains when we reject the idea that people are at least sometimes - and in at least one important sense - morally responsible for what they do ... As always, Pereboom is inventive, nuanced, and scrupulously responsive to critics of his views. No book this radical in its aims can hope to secure widespread agreement, but it will undoubtedly be a landmark for future discussions of culpability, moral psychology, hope, and the philosophy of punishment.
