Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367661441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Allan McCay; Michael Sevel

Opis

This volume brings together many of the world’s leading theorists of free will and philosophers of law to critically discuss the ground-breaking contribution of David Hodgson’s libertarianism and its application to philosophy of law.

　

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.