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Just Deserts: Debating Free Will
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Daniel C Dennett / Gregg D Caruso
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CONTENTS

Cover
Epigraph
Contributors
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. List of Useful Definitions
Exchange 1 Debating Free Will and Moral Responsibility
1. Coda: On Determinism
Exchange 2 Going Deeper: The Arguments
1. The Arguments for Free Will Skepticism
2. Debating the Manipulation Argument
3. Debating the Charge of Instrumentalism
4. Debating Luck (Again)
Exchange 3 Punishment, Morality, and Desert
1. The Public HealthQuarantine Model
2. Objections and Replies
3. Punishment, Morality, and Deterrence
4. Debating Desert and Compatibilism: One Final Time
References and Suggested Readings
Index
End User License Agreement

Guide

Cover
Table of Contents
Epigraph
Contributors
Title Page
Copyright
Foreword by Derk Pereboom
Preface
Introduction
Begin Reading
References and Suggested Readings
Index
End User License Agreement

Just Deserts is a delight: a sharp and interesting discussion of punishment, morality, choice, and much else. It hits the sweet spot; its wonderfully clear and accessible perfect for a newcomer to the free will debates but also deep and subtle, with plenty to engage experts in the field.

Paul Bloom, Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology, Yale University, and author of Against Empathy

What it means to make a choice, to deserve praise or blame, to do the right thing these are all at stake in the debate over free will. Here you will find two different viewpoints, elaborated and defended by true masters. Given the sharpness of both interlocutors, neither has anywhere to hide; a wide spectrum of important points is laid out for careful consideration.

Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

This is a very lively, engaging, and thoughtful debate between two well-informed and insightful philosophers. It is written in a very accessible style, and students and even scholars in other disciplines or sub-fields of philosophy will learn from it and find themselves drawn in. It does not just re-hash traditional debates, but pushes the frontiers outward. Highly recommended.

John Martin Fischer, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside

A philosophical debate in the grand style. Caruso and Dennett play in the philosophical equivalent of a three set tennis championship where the prize is whether free will exists or not and what this means for reward, punishment, and the criminal law. Serve, volley, amazing gets, overheads, long rallies, a few trick shots, several match points. Really smart play from two philosophers at the top of their games.

Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Distinguished University Professor, Duke University

Just Deserts made me think philosophy should never be done alone, but with a partner of equal strength and opposing views, that the best of it should be made available to the public, and that it should leave readers with an appreciation of the depth and difficulty of the questions but no easy answers. It is a stirring discussion of a difficult issue, that distils the best of what has been said for both sides. I can think of no discussion of free will and desert that gets to the heart of the issues so effectively. It reminds you just how important and difficult and vitally alive philosophical debate can be.

Jenann T. Ismael, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, and author of How Physics Makes Us Free

This is a spirited and enlightening debate between an influential defender of compatibilism about freedom, responsibility, and determinism (Dennett) and an astute defender of a hard incompatibilist or free will skeptical position (Caruso). The book breaks new ground on many issues; and it has made clearer to me than anything else I have ever read on the subject how central is the issue of just deserts to age-old debates about free will, moral responsibility, and determinism.

Robert Kane, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Law, University of Texas at Austin

Daniel C. Dennett is Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Science and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. His books include Content and Consciousness (1969), Brainstorms (1978), Elbow Room (1984), The Intentional Stance (1987), Consciousness Explained (1991), Darwins Dangerous Idea (1995), Kinds of Minds (1996), Freedom Evolves (2003), Breaking the Spell (2006), and From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (2017). He is a leading defender of compatibilism, the view that determinism can be reconciled with free will, and is perhaps best known in cognitive science for his concept of intentional systems and his multiple drafts model of human consciousness.

Gregg D. Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Corning, and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is also the Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. His books include Free Will and Consciousness (2012), Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (2021), Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (ed. 2013), Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (co-ed. with Owen Flanagan, 2018), and Free Will Skepticism in Law and Society: Challenging Retributive Justice (co-ed. with Elizabeth Shaw and Derk Pereboom, 2019). He is a leading proponent of free will skepticism, which maintains that who we are and what we do is ultimately the result of factors beyond our control, and because of this we are never morally responsible for our actions in the basic desert sense i.e. the sense that would make us truly deserving of blame and praise, punishment and reward.

The right of Daniel C. Dennett and Gregg D. Caruso to be identified as Authors of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in 2021 by Polity Press

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4577-3

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement) author. | Caruso, Gregg D., author.
Title: Just deserts : debating free will / Daniel C. Dennett and Gregg D. Caruso.
Description: Medford : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: An eye-opening debate on the philosophy and psychology of free will and what they tell us about our societies-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020029874 (print) | LCCN 2020029875 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509545759 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509545766 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509545773 (epub)

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