TY - BOOK ID - 77919955 TI - Essays on free will and moral responsibility AU - Trakakis, Nick AU - Cohen, Daniel PY - 2008 SN - 1443810762 9781443810760 1847188672 9781847188670 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Free will and determinism. KW - Responsibility. KW - Accountability KW - Moral responsibility KW - Obligation KW - Ethics KW - Supererogation 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 - Philosophical anthropology KW - General ethics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77919955 AB - The problem of free will has fascinated philosophers since ancient times: Do we have free will, or at least the kind of free will that seems necessary for moral responsibility? Does determinism - the idea that everything that happens is necessitated to happen, given the past and the laws of nature - threaten the commonly held assumption that we are indeed free and morally responsible? Although these questions have been widely discussed in the past, the present volume offers a variety of new ... ER -