Don't Let This Guy Out of Jail, but Should He Not Be Punished?

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"I, in general, across the board, want to rat o down punitive responses. Dan seems to be presupposing that the only real threat is luck," he says. "The kind of control that dan cares about can't be undermined by luck", Tom adds. 'There's still an open question about whether or not there are external agents trying to hold us responsible for our actions'

The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. If it turns out that no one is ever free and morally responsible, what would that mean for society, morality, meaning, and the law? Just Deserts introduces the concepts central to the debate about free will and moral responsibility by way of an entertaining, rigorous, and sometimes heated philosophical dialogue between two leading thinkers.