Manipulated Agents
A Window to Moral Responsibility
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 June 2019
- ISBN 9780190927967
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages184 pages
- Size 137x211x22 mm
- Weight 318 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In Manipulated Agents, Alfred R. Mele examines the role one's history plays in whether or not one is morally responsible for one's actions. Mele develops a "history-sensitive" theory of moral responsibility through reflection on a wide range of thought experiments which feature agents who have been manipulated or designed in ways that directly affect their actions.
MoreLong description:
What bearing do our histories--our influences, what we have done and what has happened to us--have on our responsibility for the actions we take or consider in the present? This is the question at the center of Alfred R. Mele's examination of moral responsibility, including the moral responsibility of manipulated agents.
Departing from other scholars writing on free will and moral responsibility, Mele reflects on a wide range of thought experiments that feature agents who have been manipulated or designed in ways which directly affect their actions. Although such thought experiments are often used by philosophers to illustrate significant features of moral responsibility, little attention has been paid to ways in which various details make a difference. In Manipulated Agents, Mele addresses this gap, arguing that such vignettes have the potential to unlock an understanding of moral responsibility that takes an agent's history into account when assigning moral praise or blame. In his analysis of these thought experiments, Mele presents a highly accessible, compelling defense of a "history-sensitive" conception of moral responsibility that has implications for free will.
This is a rigorous and insightful book by one of the leading contributors to the lively current debates about agency, free will, and moral responsibility. I admire the crystal clarity and precision of Mele's thinking and writing. He is relentless in seeking the truth, and avoiding obscurity or the easy way out. Mele's work, and this book in particular, is a model of analytic philosophy addressing big, important philosophical (and existential) issues.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Internalism and Externalism
Chapter 3. Instant Agents, Minutelings, and Radical Reversals
Chapter 4. Must Compatibilists Be Internalists?
Chapter 5. Bullet Biting and Beyond
Chapter 6. Wrapping Things Up
Appendix: Experimental Philosophy
References
Index
