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Just Deserts

Debating Free Will

By: Daniel C. Dennett,Gregg D. Caruso

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Just Deserts

Debating Free Will

By: Daniel C. Dennett,Gregg D. Caruso

The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. If it turns out that no one is ever free and morally responsible, what would that mean for society, morality, meaning, and the law? Just Deserts brings together two philosophers – Daniel C. Dennett and Gregg D. Caruso – to debate their respective views on free will, moral responsibility, and legal punishment. In three extended conversations, Dennett and Caruso present their arguments for and against the existence of free will and debate their implications. Dennett argues that the kind of free will required for moral responsibility is compatible with determinism – for him, self-control is key; we are not responsible for becoming responsible, but are responsible for staying responsible, for keeping would-be puppeteers at bay. Caruso takes the opposite view, arguing that who we are and what we do is ultimately the result of factors beyond our control, and because of this we are never morally responsible for our actions in the sense that would make us truly deserving of blame and praise, punishment and reward. Just Deserts introduces the concepts central to the debate about free will and moral responsibility by way of an entertaining, rigorous, and sometimes heated philosophical dialogue between two leading thinkers.

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1509545778

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Rejecting Retributivism

Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice

By: Gregg D. Caruso

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Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice

By: Gregg D. Caruso

Caruso argues against retributivism and develops an alternative for addressing criminal behavior that is ethically defensible and practical.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108484700

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9781108484701

Moral Responsibility Reconsidered

By: Gregg D. Caruso,Derk Pereboom

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Moral Responsibility Reconsidered

By: Gregg D. Caruso,Derk Pereboom

This Element examines the concept of moral responsibility as it is used in contemporary philosophical debates and explores the justifiability of the moral practices associated with it, including moral praise/blame, retributive punishment, and the reactive attitudes of resentment and indignation. After identifying and discussing several different varieties of responsibility-including causal responsibility, take-charge responsibility, role responsibility, liability responsibility, and the kinds of responsibility associated with attributability, answerability, and accountability-it distinguishes between basic and non-basic desert conceptions of moral responsibility and considers a number of skeptical arguments against each. It then outlines an alternative forward-looking account of moral responsibility grounded in non-desert-invoking desiderata such as protection, reconciliation, and moral formation. It concludes by addressing concerns about the practical implications of skepticism about desert-based moral responsibility and explains how optimistic skeptics can preserve most of what we care about when it comes to our interpersonal relationships, morality, and meaning in life.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009219766

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9781009219761

Neurolaw

By: Gregg D. Caruso

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Neurolaw

By: Gregg D. Caruso

Neurolaw is an area of interdisciplinary research on the meaning and implications of neuroscience for the law and legal practices. This Element addresses the potential contributions of neuroscience, and the brain sciences more generally, to criminal justice decision-making and policy. It distinguishes between three different areas and domains of investigation in neurolaw: assessment, intervention, and revision. The first concerns brain-based assessments, which may be used for predicting future violence, lie detection, judging legal insanity, and the like. The second concerns potential treatments and other interventions that aim at rehabilitating criminals and/or preventing crime before it occurs. The third investigates the ways that neuroscience may impact the law by changing or revising commonsense views about human nature and the causes of human action.

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1009271148

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Free Will and Consciousness

A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will

By: Gregg D. Caruso

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Free Will and Consciousness

A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will

By: Gregg D. Caruso

In recent decades, with advances in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences, the idea that patterns of human behavior may ultimately be due to factors beyond our conscious control has increasingly gained traction and renewed interest in the age-old problem of free will. In this book, Gregg D. Caruso examines both the traditional philosophical problems long associated with the question of free will, such as the relationship between determinism and free will, as well as recent experimental and theoretical work directly related to consciousness and human agency. He argues that our best scientific theories indeed have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform and that because of this we do not possess the kind of free will required for genuine or ultimate responsibility. It is further argued that the strong and pervasive belief in free will, which the author considers an illusion, can be accounted for through a careful analysis of our phenomenology and a proper theoretical understanding of consciousness. Indeed, the primary goal of this book is to argue that our subjective feeling of freedom, as reflected in the first-person phenomenology of agentive experience, is an illusion created by certain aspects of our consciousness.

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Lexington Books

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0739171364

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Just Deserts

Debating Free Will

By: Daniel C. Dennett,Gregg D. Caruso

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Just Deserts

Debating Free Will

By: Daniel C. Dennett,Gregg D. Caruso

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Rejecting Retributivism

Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice

By: Gregg D. Caruso

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Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice

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Caruso argues against retributivism and develops an alternative for addressing criminal behavior that is ethically defensible and practical.

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Free Will and Consciousness

A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will

By: Gregg D. Caruso

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A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will

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Just Deserts

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Just Deserts

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Rejecting Retributivism

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Free Will and Consciousness

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