This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values.
This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values.
In Free Will's Value, John Lemos has developed a rich, rigorous, and plausible account of classic libertarian free will and provided a deeply insightful guide to its personal and social implications. Anyone rejecting libertarian free will without considering Lemos' powerful pragmatic version of that position is attacking a strawman.
Bruce N. Waller, Youngstown State University, USA
John Lemos is the Joseph McCabe Professor of Philosophy at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He is the author of Commonsense Darwinism: Evolution, Morality, and the Human Condition (2008), Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism (2013), and A Pragmatic Defense of Libertarian Free Will (2018). He has also published over 30 articles in various philosophical journals such as The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Dialectica, Law and Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Philosophia, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Problems for Compatibilism: Manipulation Arguments and the Argument from Unfairness
2. Robert Kane's Libertarian Theory
3. Bruce Waller on Luck, Control, and the Evolutionary Implausibility of Libertarianism
4. More Worries About Luck and Control: Pereboom and Caruso
5. Can Libertarians Reasonably Embrace Reductive Physicalism? Moore's Challenge
6. The Indeterministic Weightings View of Libertarian Free Will
7. Libertarian Free Will and Criminal Justice: Part One
8. Libertarian Free Will and Criminal Justice: Part Two
9. In Defense of the Axiological Justification for Belief in Libertarian Free Will
10. Fulfillment, Justified Pride, and Libertarian Free Will
11. Libertarian Free Will and Love's Value
Conclusion
Bibliogrpahy
Index