Daniel C. Dennett - Just Deserts

1 Cover

2 Epigraph

3 Contributors

4 Title Page

5 Copyright

6 Foreword

7 Preface

8 Introduction List of Useful Definitions

9 Exchange 1 Debating Free Will and Moral Responsibility Coda: On Determinism

10 Exchange 2 Going Deeper: The Arguments The Arguments for Free Will Skepticism Debating the Manipulation Argument Debating the Charge of Instrumentalism Debating Luck (Again)

11 Exchange 3 Punishment, Morality, and Desert The Public Health–Quarantine Model Objections and Replies Punishment, Morality, and Deterrence Debating Desert and Compatibilism: One Final Time

12 References and Suggested Readings

13 Index

14 End User License Agreement

1 Cover

2 Table of Contents

3 Epigraph

4 Contributors

5 Title Page

6 Copyright

7 Foreword by Derk Pereboom

8 Preface

9 Introduction

10 Begin Reading

11 References and Suggested Readings

12 Index

13 End User License Agreement

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“Just Deserts is a delight: a sharp and interesting discussion of punishment, morality, choice, and much else. It hits the sweet spot; it’s wonderfully clear and accessible – perfect for a newcomer to the free will debates – but also deep and subtle, with plenty to engage experts in the field.”

Paul Bloom, Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology, Yale University, and author of Against Empathy

“What it means to make a choice, to deserve praise or blame, to do the right thing – these are all at stake in the debate over free will. Here you will find two different viewpoints, elaborated and defended by true masters. Given the sharpness of both interlocutors, neither has anywhere to hide; a wide spectrum of important points is laid out for careful consideration.”

Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

“This is a very lively, engaging, and thoughtful debate between two well-informed and insightful philosophers. It is written in a very accessible style, and students and even scholars in other disciplines or sub-fields of philosophy will learn from it and find themselves drawn in. It does not just re-hash traditional debates, but pushes the frontiers outward. Highly recommended.”

John Martin Fischer, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside

“A philosophical debate in the grand style. Caruso and Dennett play in the philosophical equivalent of a three set tennis championship where the prize is whether free will exists or not and what this means for reward, punishment, and the criminal law. Serve, volley, amazing gets, overheads, long rallies, a few trick shots, several match points. Really smart play from two philosophers at the top of their games.”

Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Distinguished University Professor, Duke University

“ Just Deserts made me think philosophy should never be done alone, but with a partner of equal strength and opposing views, that the best of it should be made available to the public, and that it should leave readers with an appreciation of the depth and difficulty of the questions but no easy answers. It is a stirring discussion of a difficult issue, that distils the best of what has been said for both sides. I can think of no discussion of free will and desert that gets to the heart of the issues so effectively. It reminds you just how important and difficult and vitally alive philosophical debate can be.”

Jenann T. Ismael, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, and author of How Physics Makes Us Free

“This is a spirited and enlightening debate between an influential defender of compatibilism about freedom, responsibility, and determinism (Dennett) and an astute defender of a hard incompatibilist or free will skeptical position (Caruso). The book breaks new ground on many issues; and it has made clearer to me than anything else I have ever read on the subject how central is the issue of “just deserts” to age-old debates about free will, moral responsibility, and determinism.”

Robert Kane, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Law, University of Texas at Austin

Daniel C. Dennettis Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Science and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. His books include Content and Consciousness (1969), Brainstorm s (1978), Elbow Room (1984), The Intentional Stance (1987), Consciousness Explained (1991), Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (1995), Kinds of Minds (1996), Freedom Evolves (2003), Breaking the Spell (2006), and From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (2017). He is a leading defender of compatibilism, the view that determinism can be reconciled with free will, and is perhaps best known in cognitive science for his concept of intentional systems and his multiple drafts model of human consciousness.

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