Manipulation Arguments, Basic Desert, and Moral Responsibility: Assessing Derk Pereboom’s Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life

Michael S McKenna

doi:10.1007/s11572-015-9388-8

Manipulation Arguments, Basic Desert, and Moral Responsibility: Assessing Derk Pereboom’s Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life

Michael S McKenna

Philosophy of Freedom, Center for

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Abstract

In this paper I critically assess Derk Pereboom’s book, Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life. In it, I resist Pereboom’s manipulation argument for incompatibilism and his indictment of desert-based accounts of moral responsibility.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-15
Number of pages	15
Journal	Criminal Law and Philosophy
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-015-9388-8
State	Accepted/In press - Jan 5 2016

Keywords

Basic desert
Derk Pereboom
Desert
Hardline reply to manipulation argument
Manipulation argument

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Law
Philosophy

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