Deep Control: Essays on Free Will and Value

by John Martin Fischer

Book Overview

In this collection of essays -- a follow up to My Way and Our Stories -- John Martin Fischer defends the contention that moral responsibility is associated with "deep control." Fischer defines deep control as the middle ground between two untenable extreme positions: "superficial control" and "total control."

Our freedom consists of the power to add to the given past, holding fixed the laws of nature, and therefore, Fischer contends, we must...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199354138
• ISBN13: 9780199354139
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"