Restorative Free Will

Back to the Biological Base

Bruce N. Waller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2240-3 (ISBN)

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Restorative Free Will recognizes the basic biological value of both libertarian and compatibilist elements of free will, and explains how these traditionally opposed accounts of free will capture an essential element of foraging animals' free will.

Restorative Free Will argues for an account of free will that takes seriously the evolutionary development of the key elements of free will. It emphasizes a biological understanding of free will that rejects the belief that free will belongs exclusively to humans and seeks to understand free will by examining it writ large in the adaptive behavior of many species. Drawing on resources from primatology, biology, psychology, and anthropology, Restorative Free Will examines the major compatibilist and libertarian accounts of free will, acknowledges their important insights while arguing that each view mistakenly treats an essential element of animal free will as if it were the full account of free will, and demonstrates how a broader biological approach to free will integrates those insights into a richer naturalistic free will account.

Bruce N. Waller is professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University

Chapter 1: Human Uniqueness
Chapter 2: Uniquely Human Reason
Chapter 3: Will Power in a Just World
Chapter 4: The Burden of Moral Responsibility
Chapter 5: Free Will and Criminal Justice
Chapter 6: Psychological Free Will
Chapter 7: Restorative Free Will
Chapter 8: Enlarging Ethics
Chapter 9: Why Keep Free Will?

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2017
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 228 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	1-4985-2240-8 / 1498522408
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-2240-3 / 9781498522403
Zustand	Neuware