Derk Pereboom articulates and defends an original, forward-looking conception of moral responsibility.

Argues that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible for our actions.

Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moral responsibility, and determinism, this text represents the most up-to-date account of the four major positions in the free will debate.

As an advanced introduction to the challenging topic of free will, this book is designed for upper-level undergraduates interested in a comprehensive first-stop into the field’s issues and debates.

This major new book by a leading philosopher of moral responsibility and free will provides an account in how we can and should respond to wrongdoing if we are doubtful about how free our human agency really is.

This Element examines the concept of moral responsibility as it is used in contemporary philosophical debates and explores the justifiability of the moral practices associated with it, including moral praise/blame, retributive punishment, ...

The deepest relation between the psychological and the microphysical is constitution, where this relation is not to be explicated by the notion of identity.

This Element provides a thorough overview of the free will debate as it currently stands.