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Shaun Nichols · ISBN 9780199291847
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Publisher Oxford University Press UK
Author(s) Shaun Nichols
Subtitle Essays on free will and responsibility
Published 22nd January 2015
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Essays on free will and responsibility

Shaun Nichols examines the ordinary attitudes which give rise to the problem of free will from a naturalistic perspective. He offers a psychological account of the origins of the problem, and argues that our belief in indeterminist choice is grounded in faulty inference and should be regarded as unjustified. He goes on to suggest that because of the flexibility of reference, there is no single answer to whether free will exists. With this substantive background
in place, Bound promotes a pragmatic approach to prescriptive issues, and allows for the possibility that in some contexts, it is morally apt to exact retributive punishment; in other contexts, it can
be apt to take up the exonerating attitude of hard incompatibilism.
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