Unbound: Free Will for Moral Responsibility Skeptics
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Many contemporary discussions of free will share the assumption that philosophical questions related to free will are important only for reasons related to moral responsibility. In this dissertation, I explore an alternative explanation for why we may care about free will—liberty appears empty without it. This dissertation is composed of three independent chapters, which respectively address the following questions: 1. What kind of free will can we hope for? 2. What is a free agent like? 3. Why should we express our resentment if moral responsibility does not exist?Type
textElectronic Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.Degree Level
doctoralDegree Program
Graduate CollegePhilosophy