出版社：Smith and Franklin Academic Publishing Corporation, UK
摘要：Derk Pereboom's Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life (2014) provides the most lively and comprehen- sive defense of free will skepticism in the literature. It contains a reworked and expanded version of the view he first developed in Living without Free Will (2001). Important objections to the early book are answered, some slight modifications are introduced, and the overall account is significantly embellished¡ªfor ex- ample, Pereboom proposes a new account of rational deliberation consistent with the belief that one's ac- tions are causally determined (ch.5) and develops a forward-looking theory of moral responsibility con- sistent with free will skepticism (ch.6). A significant contribution to the field, Free Will, Agency, and Mean- ing in Life is destined to become a classic and is es- sential reading for anyone interested in free will and moral responsibility.
