1st Edition
Free Will and the Law New Perspectives
1. Introduction; Part I: Libertarian Free Will 2. Making Sense of Libertarian Free Will: Consciousness, Science and Laws of Nature 3. Conscious Gestalts, Apposite Responses and Libertarian Freedom 4. Occam’s Shopper: The Costs of Plausible Reasoning 5. The Luck Argument Against Libertarianism 6. Frankfurt-Style Examples, Impermissibility, and Reasons-Responsiveness Part II: Libertarian Free Will and the Law 7. How Judges are Free to Decide Cases 8. Responsible Agency in the Criminal Process 9. Hodgson on Retribution 10. Why Capacity Matters: Is it Fair to Treat People Like That, Like That, for That? 11. Mitigation is Difficult: A Moral Evaluation of a Mitigation Practice at Sentencing 12. David Hodgson’s Theory of Plausible Reasoning
Biography
Allan McCay teaches at the University of Sydney Foundation Program and is a researcher at the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics at Macquarie University. He is also a lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School.
Michael Sevel is Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney Law School.
