Hard Luck: How Luck Undermines Free Will and Moral Responsibility

by Neil Levy

Book Overview

The concept of luck has played an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility, yet participants in these debates have relied upon an intuitive notion of what luck is. Neil Levy develops an account of luck, which is then applied to the free will debate. He argues that the standard luck objection succeeds against common accounts of libertarian free will, but that it is possible to amend libertarian accounts so that they are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199601380
• ISBN13: 9780199601387
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.8"