Moral Responsibility and Free Will Reading List

Moral Responsiblity and Free Will Reading List

• Radio Lab Episode on Blame and Moral Responsibility

• Sapolsky, Robert. Chapter 16: Biology, the Criminal Justice System, and (Oh, Why Not?) Free Will (580-613)

• Henrich, Joseph, "Hell, Free Will, and Moral Universalism" from The WEIRDEST People on Earth p. 146-148, (2)

• Nadelhoffer, Thomas. "Introduction - Moral Responsibility has a Past - Has it a future?"

• Waller. Bruce. "Moral Responsibility is Morally Wrong"

• Sie, Maureen. "Free Will, an Illusion?"

• Dennett, Daniel. Chapter 1. Freedom Evolves.

• Nagel, Thomas. "Moral Luck" (1979)

• Strawson Galen. "The Impossibility of Moral Responsiblity" (1994)

• Frankfurt, Harry. "Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility" (1969)

• Widerker, David. "Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities"

• Frankfurt, Harry. "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person"

• Caruso, Gregg. "A Defense of the Luck Pincer"

• Waller, Bruce. Chapter 1. "Moral Responsibility," Against Moral Responsibility

• Waller, Bruce. Chapter 2. "The Basic Argument against Moral Responsibility," Against Moral Responsibility

• Dennett, Daniel. Review of "Against Moral Responsibility, Naturalim.org

• Clark, Tom. "Exchange on Waller's 'Against Moral Responsibility"

• Henrich, Joe. Chapter 14. "The Dark Matter of History" The WEIRDEST People in the World"

• Dennett, Daniel. Freedom Evolves.

• Greene, Joshua and Jonathan Cohen. "For the Law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything"

• Cavadino, Michael and James Dignan. "Penal policy and political economy".

• Caruso, Gregg. "The Public Health-Quarantine Model"

• Shaw, Elizabeth. "Justice Without Moral Responsibility"

Organized by Unit

Class Reading Schedule

1. Introduction to MR & FW Problems (86)

• Lecture material to provide overview of MRFW problems.

• Radio Lab Episode on Blame and Moral Responsibility -

• Henrich, Joseph, "Hell, Free Will, and Moral Universalism" from The WEIRDEST People on Earth p. 146-148, (2)

• Sapolsky, “Biology, the Criminal Justice System, and (Oh, Why Not?) Free Will,” C16 Behave - over view of MRFW from the perspective of a biologist. (32)

• Nadelhoffer, “Introduction: Moral Responsiblity has a Past. Has it a Future?” - introduction to MRFW from a philosopher. Also introduces articles in special issue of the Journal of Information Ethics (JIE2018). (18)

• Waller, Bruce. “Moral Responsibility is Morally Wrong” - This article from JIE2018 gives you a version of Waller’s argument in Against Moral Responsibility (MIT 2011). (18)

• Sie, Maureen. “Free Will, an Illusion? An Answer from a Pragmatic Sentimentalist Point of View” in Neuroexistentialism Eds. Caruso & Flanagan. (17)

2. Three traditional research programs regarding MR skepticism. (50)

• Nagel, Thomas. “Moral Luck” 1979. (10)

• Caruso, Greg. “A Defense of the Luck Pincer: Why Luck (Still) Undermines Moral Responsibility” (JIE2018) (21)

• Strawson, Galen. “The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility” Phil Studies 75: 5-24, 1994. (19)

3. Recent MR Skepticism & Critics (64)

• Waller, Bruce. “Moral Responsibility” Chapter 1 Against Moral Responsibility (17)

• Waller, Bruce. “The Basic Argument against Moral Responsibility” Chapter 2 Against Moral Responsibility (23)

• Dennett, Dan. “Review of Waller, Against Moral Responsibility [1] (12)

• Clark, Dennett, Waller exchange. [2] (12)

4. Free Will (308)

• Dennett, Dan. Freedom Evolves (2003) (308)

5. Proposals (33)

• Greene, Joshua and Jonathan Cohen. “For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything.” (13+)

• Elizabeth Shaw. “Justice without Moral Responsibility” (19)