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Oxford The Limits of Free Will 2017 Edition by Paul Russell
The Limits of Free Will contains a selection of papers concerning free will and moral responsibility. The problems arising in this field of philosophy, which are deeply rooted in the history of the subject, are also intimately related to a wide range of other fields, such as law and criminology, moral psychology, theology, and, more recently, neuroscience. The papers included in this collection were written and first published over a period of three decades,_x000D_although most have appeared in the past decade or so. During this period this area of philosophy has been particularly active and it continues to attract a great deal of interest and attention. Among the topics covered, as they relate to these problems, are the challenge of skepticism; moral sentiment and_x000D_moral capacity; necessity and the metaphysics of causation; practical reason; free will and art; fatalism and the limits of agency; moral luck, and our metaphysical attitudes of optimism and pessimism._x000D__x000D_Some of the papers in this collection are primarily critical in character, presenting critiques and commentary on major works or contributions in the contemporary scene. Others are mainly constructive, aiming to develop and articulate a distinctive account of compatibilism. The general theory advanced, which is described as a form of "critical compatibilism", rejects any form of unqualified or radical skepticism but also insists that a plausible compatibilism has significant and substantive_x000D_implications about the limits of agency and argues that this licenses a metaphysical attitude of (modest) pessimism on this topic. Finally, each paper in this collection is self-standing and can be read in isolation from the others. There is, nevertheless, a core set of themes and issues that unite and_x000D_link them all together. The collection is arranged and organized in a format that enables the reader to appreciate and recognize these links and the core themes that unite them._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
Introduction_x000D_
Table of Contents_x000D_
Acknowledgements_x000D_
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I. Free Will and Causal Relations_x000D_
1. Sorabji and the Dilemma of Determinism [With an Addendum, 2016]_x000D_
2. Causation, Compulsion and Compatibilism_x000D_
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II. Responsibility, Skepticism and Moral Sentiment_x000D_
3. Strawson's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility_x000D_
4. Responsibility and the Condition of Moral Sense_x000D_
5. Moral Sense and the Foundations of Responsibility_x000D_
6. Responsibility, Naturalism and 'the Morality System_x000D_
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III. Practical Reason, Art and Manipulation_x000D_
7. Practical Reason and Motivational Skepticism_x000D_
8. Free Will, Art and Morality_x000D_
9. Selective Hard Compatibilism: Manipulation and Moral Standing_x000D_
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IV. Pessimism and the Limits of Free Will_x000D_
10. Compatibilist-Fatalism: Finitude, Pessimism and the Limits of Free Will _x000D_
11. Pessimists, Pollyannas and the New Compatibilism_x000D_
12. Free Will Pessimism_x000D_
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List of related publications_x000D_
Index_x000D_