Freedom, Responsibility, and Value

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Freedom, Responsibility, and Value

Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

Sociology: death and dying Medical sociology Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Ethics and moral philosophy Philosophy of religion

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Collection: Routledge Festschrifts in Philosophy

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 22nd November 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781003802990


This volume celebrates the career of John Martin Fischer, whose work on a wide range of topics over the past 40 years has been transformative and inspirational.

Fischer’s semicompatibilist view of free will and moral responsibility is perhaps the most widely discussed view of its kind, and his emphasis on the significance of reasons-responsiveness as the capacity that underlies moral accountability has been widely influential. Aside from free will and moral responsibility, Fischer is also well-known for his work on freedom and foreknowledge, the problem of evil, the badness of death, the meaning of life, and the allure of immortality. This volume gathers new essays by leading scholars on some of the major themes of Fischer's work, and it also includes a new piece by Fischer in which he offers a systematic reflection on and defense of the motivations that have shaped his theorizing about moral responsibility.

Freedom, Responsibility, and Value will be of interest to scholars and students working on a variety of issues in metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of religion.

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