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My Way John Martin Fischer

My Way By John Martin Fischer

My Way by John Martin Fischer


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This is a selection of essays on moral responsibility that represent the major components of John Martin Fischer's overall approach to freedom of the will and moral responsibility. The collection exhibits the overall structure of Fischer's view and shows how the various elements fit together to form a comprehensive framework for analyzing free will and moral responsibility.

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My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility by John Martin Fischer

This is a selection of essays on moral responsibility that represent the major components of John Martin Fischer's overall approach to freedom of the will and moral responsibility. The collection exhibits the overall structure of Fischer's view and shows how the various elements fit together to form a comprehensive framework for analyzing free will and moral responsibility. The topics include deliberation and practical reasoning, freedom of the will, freedom of action, various notions of control, and moral accountability. The essays seek to provide a foundation for our practices of holding each other (and ourselves) morally and legally accountable for our behavior. A crucial move is the distinction between two kinds of control. According to Fischer, regulative control involves freedom to choose and do otherwise (alternative possibilities), whereas guidance control does not. Fischer contends that guidance control is all the freedom we need to be morally responsible agents. Further, he contends that such control is fully compatible with causal determinism. Additionally, Fischer argues that we do not need genuine access to alternative possibilities in order for there to be a legitimate point to practical reasoning. Fischer's overall framework contains an argument for the contention that guidance control, and not regulative control, is associated with moral responsibility, a sketch of a comprehensive theory of moral responsibility (that ties together responsibility for actions, omissions, consequences, and character), and an account of the value of moral responsibility. On this account, the value of exhibiting freedom (of the relevant sort) and thus being morally responsible for one's behavior is a species of the value of artistic self-expression.

My Way Reviews

The essays in this volume, together with Fischer's other pieces, have played a major role in shaping the contemporary debate in the metaphysics of free will...one can ill afford to ignore the wealth of wisdom in the story of responsibility that Fischer carefully crafts. * Ishtiyaque Haji Ethical Perspectives *
Whether or not one ultimately agrees with the relevant positions that Fischer defends, one can ill afford to ignore the wealth of wisdom in the story of responsibility that Fischer carefully crafts * Ishtiyaque Haji, Ethical Perspectives *

About John Martin Fischer

John Martin Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction: A Framework for Moral Responsibility 2: Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities 3: Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility 4: Responsibility for Omissions (with Mark Ravizza) 5: Responsibility and Self-Expression 6: Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism 7: Responsibility and Agent-Causation 8: The Transfer of Nonresponsibility 9: Transfer Principles and Moral Responsibility (with Eleanore Stump)

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CIN0195337468G
9780195337464
0195337468
My Way: Essays on Moral Responsibility by John Martin Fischer
Used - Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press Inc
2007-11-02
304
N/A
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