Luck's mischief : obligation and blameworthiness on a thread /

Something is subject to luck if it is beyond our control. In this book, I show that luck detrimentally affects both moral obligation and moral responsibility. I argue that factors influencing the way we are, together with considerations that link motivation and ability to perform intentional actions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haji, Ishtiyaque
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Luck's Hijacking of Obligation and Responsibility
  • Luck's Treat to Obligation and Responsibility
  • Synopsis
  • Obligation and Alternative Possibilities
  • Luck
  • Obligation and Alternatives
  • Stage-Setting for Objections: Frankfurt Examples
  • Obligation Presupposes Alternatives: A Defense
  • Nelkin on a Novel Interpretation of OIC
  • An Argument from Frankfurt Examples
  • Frankfurt Examples and Kant's Law
  • Frankfurt Examples and Action
  • Frankfurt Examples and Specific versus General Abilities
  • Does Blameworthiness Require Impermissibility?
  • Truth and the Function of Ought Judgments
  • The Argument from Limitation
  • Graham on/Cants Law
  • Pereboom's Objections
  • Obligation Under Threat
  • Frankfurt Examples, Luck, and Obligation
  • Principle Motivation/Ability
  • Diminished Obligation
  • Objections and Replies
  • Another Frankfurt Example
  • Obligation and Self-Control
  • Blameworthiness Under Threat
  • Blameworthiness and Impermissibility
  • The Objective View
  • The Simple Subjective View
  • The Complex Subjective View
  • Respecting Subjective Views
  • Subjective Views Defended
  • Subjective Views and the Principle of Alternative Expectations
  • Diminished Blameworthiness
  • Changing Obligations, Blameworthiness, and Impermissibility
  • A Costly Way Out: Obligation and Blameworthiness Rescued
  • Semicompatibilism and Nonmoral Varieties of Blameworthiness
  • Semicompatibilism
  • Semicompatibilism's Domain
  • The Scope of Nonmoral Varieties of Blameworthiness
  • Teleological Theories, Obligation, and Blameworthiness
  • Ramifications
  • Character, Obligation, and Blameworthiness
  • On the Moral Aims of Education
  • Imperiled Aims
  • The Defeat of Uprightness
  • The Defeat of Appraisability
  • Spreading the Net: More Is at Stake
  • Some Thoughts on the Metaphysics of Free Will
  • Constrained Skepticism
  • Frankfurt Examples and Guidance Control
  • From the Frying Pan into the Fire: Frankfurt Examples Yet Again
  • The Traditional Dilemma
  • Determinism, Obligation, and Blameworthiness
  • Indeterminism, Obligation, and Blameworthiness
  • Modest Libertarianism and the Luck Objection
  • The No Explanation Version
  • The Pure Luck Version
  • Griffith on the Luck Objection
  • Steward on the Luck Objection
  • Luck and Obligation
  • Determinism and Strong Alternatives
  • A Slight Digression: Compatibilism and Luck
  • Our Morally Messy World.