Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments
by R. Jay Wallace
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R. Jay Wallace advances a powerful and sustained argument against the common view that accountability requires freedom of will. Instead, he maintains, the fairness of holding people responsible depends on their rational competence: the power to grasp moral reasons and to control their behavior accordingly. He shows how these forms of rational competence are compatible with determinism. At the same time, giving serious consideration to incompatibilist concerns, Wallace develops a compelling show more diagnosis of the common assumption that freedom is necessary for responsibility. show lessTags
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R. Jay Wallace is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Judy Chandler Webb Distinguished Chair. His publications include Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments (1994), Normativity and the Will (OUP, 2006), and numerous papers on moral psychology, the theory of practical reason, the philosophy of show more responsibility, and other topics in philosophical ethics. show less
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