Reason's Debt to Freedom: Normative Appraisals, Reasons, and Free Will

by Ishtiyaque Haji

To have free will with respect to an act is to have the ability both to perform and to refrain from performing it. In this book, Ishtiyaque Haji argues that no one can have practical reasons of a certain sort -- "objective reasons" -- to perform some act unless one has free will regarding that act. It follows that we cannot have objective reasons to perform an act unless we could have done otherwise. This is reason's debt to freedom. Haji argues,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199899207
• ISBN13: 9780199899203
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.4"