TY - BOOK ID - 80822132 TI - Living without free will PY - 2001 SN - 9780511498824 9780521791984 9780521029964 0511012500 9780511012501 0511498829 9780511046940 0511046944 9780511152863 0521791987 0511152868 1107121744 9781107121744 0521029961 0511173695 9780511173691 1280430125 9781280430121 0511325061 9780511325069 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Free will and determinism. KW - Compatibilism KW - Determinism and free will KW - Determinism and indeterminism KW - Free agency KW - Freedom and determinism KW - Freedom of the will KW - Indeterminism KW - Liberty of the will KW - Determinism (Philosophy) KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80822132 AB - Most people assume that, even though some degenerative or criminal behavior may be caused by influences beyond our control, ordinary human actions are not similarly generated, but rather are freely chosen, and we can be praiseworthy or blameworthy for them. A less popular and more radical claim is that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform. It is this hard determinist stance that Derk Pereboom articulates in Living Without Free Will. Pereboom argues that our best scientific theories have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform, and that because of this, we are not morally responsible for any of them. He seeks to defend the view that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible, and furthermore, that adopting this perspective would provide significant benefit for our lives. ER -