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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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.