"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. * Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposing viewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism, and revisionism * The first half of the book contains each philosopher's explanation of his particular view; th ..."
"Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture. Today, zombies and vampires have taken over TV shows, comic books, cartoons, video games, and movies. Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy drags the theories of famous philosophers like Socrates and Descartes into the territory of the undead, exploring questions like: Why do vampires and vegetarians share a simil ..."
"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. Four serious and well–known philosophers explore the opposing viewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism, and revisionism The first half of the book contains each philosopher s explanation of his ..."
"John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, Manuel Vargas.
systematically developed by Widerker (Kane 1985: 51; 1996: 142–4, 191–2;
Widerker 1995: 247–61; cf. Ginet 1996). The general form of the Kane/ Widerker
objection is this: for any Frankfurt-style scenario, if causal determinism is
assumed to hold in that scenario, the libertarian will not have and cannot be
expected to have the intuition that the agent is morally respon ..."
"Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility investigates the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications. Skepticism about free will and moral responsibility has been on the rise in recent years. In fact, a significant number of philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists now either doubt or outright deny the existence of free will and/or moral responsibility--and the list ..."
Building Better Beings(Reprint) A Theory of Moral Responsibility by ManuelVargas Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-870936-7, ISBN: 0-19-870936-6
"WINNER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION BOOK PRIZE (2015). Building Better Beings presents a new theory of moral responsibility. Beginning with a discussion of ordinary convictions about responsibility and free will and their implications for a philosophical theory, Manuel Vargas argues that no theory can do justice to all the things we want from a theory of free will and moral responsibility. He goes on to sho ..."
"For vertically interlocking intentions to generate the J-authority relation, it is
necessary that the intentions be fairly stable. As Margaret Gilbert pointed out to
me, individuals whose demands can be ignored virtually at will are best not
considered ..."
Building Better Beings(1st Edition) A Theory of Moral Responsibility by ManuelVargas Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-969754-0, ISBN: 0-19-969754-X
"Building Better Beings presents a new theory of moral responsibility. Beginning with a discussion of ordinary convictions about responsibility and free will and their implications for a philosophical theory, Manuel Vargas argues that no theory can do justice to all the things we want from a theory of free will and moral responsibility. He goes on to show how we can nevertheless justify our responsibility practices and provide a normativ ..."
Building Better Beings A Theory of Moral Responsibility by ManuelVargas 360 Pages, Published 2013 by Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-104366-6, ISBN: 0-19-104366-4
"The Non-Reality of Free l/Vill. New York: ... Free l/Vill: A Philosophical Study.
Boulder, CO: ... “Précis of Responsibility and Control: A Theory ofMoral
Responsibility,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61, no. 2 (2000):
441-6. Fischer ..."
Building Better Beings A Theory of Moral Responsibility by ManuelVargas 360 Pages, Published 2012 by Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-165577-7, ISBN: 0-19-165577-5
"However, genuine moral praise and blame are inappropriate in his case. My
account of responsible agency is mixed. One reason why derives from the
general approach: I have. 12 Phineas is very loosely modeled on the real world
example of Phineas Gage. The case of Phineas Gage is engagingly described in
Oliver W. Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical
Tales (New York: Summit Books, 1985). 13 Fischer and Raviz ..."
Rational and Social Agency(1st Edition) The Philosophy of Michael Bratman by ManuelVargas, Gideon Yaffe Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-979451-5, ISBN: 0-19-979451-0
"Michael Bratman's work has been unusually influential, with significance in disciplines as diverse as philosophy, computer science, law, and primatology. This is a collection of critical essays by some of contemporary philosophy's most distinguished figures, including Margaret Gilbert, Richard Holton, Christine Korsgaard, Alfred Mele, Elijah Milgram, Kieran Setiya, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Scott Shapiro, Michael Smith, J. David Velleman, ..."
"This book explores the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications. Skepticism about free will and moral responsibility has been on the rise in recent years. In fact, a significant number of philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists now either doubt or outright deny the existence of free will and/or moral responsibility—and the list of prominent skeptics appears to grow by the day. Given ..."
Historia de Bolivia by ManuelVargas Paperback, Published 2012 by Correveidile ISBN-13: 978-99954-0-178-8, ISBN: 99954-0-178-9
Nocturno Paceno by ManuelVargas Paperback, Published 2006 by Bolivia Books Distributor 2006/08/30 ISBN-13: 978-99905-889-0-3, ISBN: 99905-889-0-2
"Blanca Shariel Ordoñez I. ligones Líderes contemporáneos del movimiento
campesino indIgena de Bolivia: Alejandro Villavicencio / Blanca Ordoñez
Lugones; Ramón Rocha Monrroy; Manuel Vargas. - La Paz: CIPCA, 2008 .. p.
fots."
PUENTES Poesía Croata : Diez poetas contemporáneos by Zeljka Lovrencic, Stjepan Čuić, ManuelVargas Paperback, 119 Pages, Published 2007 by Sociedad De Escritores Croatas ISBN-13: 978-953-6810-95-6, ISBN: 953-6810-95-6
"Monitoring. José Manuel Milla, Sergio L. Toral, Manuel Vargas and Federico
Barrero University of Seville Spain 1. Introduction Traffic data collection is an
essential issue for road-traffic control departments, which need real-time
information for ..."