Is Deliberation Consistent With Reason?

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"No one on thi screen, i hope, a, thinks that determinism is a threat to rational deliberation," he says. "I agree completely with what dan said much earlier in our conversation, which is, some people change their minds." He adds: 'O people can be moved by arguments'

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.