Luck's Mischief
Obligation and Blameworthiness on a Thread
$177.20
- Hardcover
376 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2016
Summary
Something is subject to luck if it is beyond our control. In this book, Haji shows that luck detrimentally affects both moral obligation and moral responsibility. He argues that factors influencing the way we are, together with considerations that link motivation and ability to perform intentional actions, frequently preclude our being able to do otherwise. Since obligation requires that we can do otherwise, luck compromises the range of what is morally obligatoryfor us. This result, together…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780190260774 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0190260777 |
| Author: | Ishtiyaque Haji |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 150mm x 211mm x 36mm |
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About The Author
Ishtiyaque Haji
Ish Haji is professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary. He has research interests in action theory, ethical theory, metaphysics, and philosophical psychology. His publications include Moral Appraisability (1998), Deontic Morality and Control (2002), Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education (2008, with S. Cuypers), Freedom and Value (2009), and Incompatibilism’s Allure (2009), and Reason’s Debt toFreedom (2012).
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