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by Shaun Nichols

ISBN: 0199291845
Author: Shaun Nichols
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (March 8, 2015)
Pages: 192
Category: Humanities
Subcategory: Other
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Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Nichols work is an invaluable asset, bringing together recent work in psychology and experimental philosophy and analyzing them in the context of the free will debate. It should be added as course material for philosophy classes. Shaun Nichols is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment (OUP, 2004) and co-author (with Stephen Stich) of Mindreading (OUP, 2003).

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Shaun Nichols offers a provocative and original approach to the problem of free will. Nichols defends a form of revisionism about free will and moral responsibility. Drawing from psychology, experimental philosophy, and traditional philosophical treatments, Nichols' shows how many of the moral and metaphysical matters surrounding free will and moral responsibility are not what they seem. He thinks that our considered philosophical view should be one that repudiates important aspects of ordinary thinking about freedom and responsibility.

The problem of free will arises from ordinary, commonsense reflection. Shaun Nichols examines these ordinary attitudes from a naturalistic perspective. He offers a psychological account of the origins of the problem of free will. According to his account the problem arises because of two naturally emerging ways of thinking about ourselves and the world, one of which makes determinism plausible while the other makes determinism implausible. Although contemporary cognitive science does not settle whether choices are determined, Nichols argues that our belief in indeterminist choice is grounded in faulty inference and should be regarded as unjustified. However, even if our belief in indeterminist choice is false, it's a further substantive question whether that means that free will doesn't exist. Nichols argues that, because of the flexibility of reference, there is no single answer to whether free will exists. In some contexts, it will be true to say 'free will exists'; in other contexts, it will be false to say that. With this substantive background in place, Bound promotes a pragmatic approach to prescriptive issues. In some contexts, the prevailing practical considerations suggest that we should deny the existence of free will and moral responsibility; in other contexts the practical considerations suggest that we should affirm free will and moral responsibility. This allows for the possibility that in some contexts, it is morally apt to exact retributive punishment; in other contexts, it can be apt to take up the exonerating attitude of hard incompatibilism.