Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives

Author:   Allan McCay ,  Michael Sevel
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781472481443


Pages:   230
Publication Date:   21 February 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Allan McCay ,  Michael Sevel
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9781472481443


ISBN 10:   1472481445
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   21 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Introduction; Part I: Libertarian Free Will 2. Making Sense of Libertarian Free Will: Consciousness, Science and Laws of Nature 3. Conscious Gestalts, Apposite Responses and Libertarian Freedom 4. Occam’s Shopper: The Costs of Plausible Reasoning 5. The Luck Argument Against Libertarianism 6. Frankfurt-Style Examples, Impermissibility, and Reasons-Responsiveness Part II: Libertarian Free Will and the Law 7. How Judges are Free to Decide Cases 8. Responsible Agency in the Criminal Process 9. Hodgson on Retribution 10. Why Capacity Matters: Is it Fair to Treat People Like That, Like That, for That? 11. Mitigation is Difficult: A Moral Evaluation of a Mitigation Practice at Sentencing 12. David Hodgson’s Theory of Plausible Reasoning

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Allan McCay teaches at the University of Sydney Foundation Program and is a researcher at the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics at Macquarie University. He is also a lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. Michael Sevel is Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney Law School.

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