Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments, Paperback/R. Jay Wallace
Descriere
Description R. Jay Wallace advances a powerful and sustained argument against the common view that accountability requires freedom of will. Instead, he maintains, the fairness of holding people responsible depends on their rational competence: the power to grasp moral reasons and to control their behavior accordingly. He shows how these forms of rational competence are compatible with determinism. At the same time, giving serious consideration to incompatibilist concerns, Wallace develops a compelling diagnosis of the common assumption that freedom is necessary for responsibility.
Despre autor
R. Jay Wallace este profesor distinguit de filozofie și titularul Catedei William și Trudy Ausfahl la Universitatea din California, Berkeley. Domeniile sale de specializare includ filozofia morală și filozofia acțiunii. Este cel mai cunoscut pentru lucrările sale privind rațiunea practică, psihologia morală și metaetica.
