Free Will and Luck
Book • 2008
Alfred Mele's Free Will and Luck investigates how various kinds of luck affect moral responsibility, including influential discussions of manipulation cases.
Mele offers detailed empirical and conceptual analyses to challenge simplistic assumptions about freedom and moral blame.
The book introduces thought experiments, like the zygote case, to probe intuitions about responsibility when agents are causally influenced.
Mele also assesses compatibilist and incompatibilist responses, emphasizing careful distinctions between different kinds of luck and control.
The work is a significant contribution to contemporary free will literature, blending philosophical argumentation with attention to psychological data.
Mele offers detailed empirical and conceptual analyses to challenge simplistic assumptions about freedom and moral blame.
The book introduces thought experiments, like the zygote case, to probe intuitions about responsibility when agents are causally influenced.
Mele also assesses compatibilist and incompatibilist responses, emphasizing careful distinctions between different kinds of luck and control.
The work is a significant contribution to contemporary free will literature, blending philosophical argumentation with attention to psychological data.
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