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Control # 1 hbl99067995
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Date 5 20190911110854.0
Fixed Data 8 140715s2014 enk b 001 0 eng d
LC Card 10    $a 2013454076$z 2013954185
Tag 16 16 $a016584345$2Uk
ISBN 20    $a9780198704638
ISBN 20    $a0198704631
Local Ctrl # 35    $a(OCoLC)ocn859580930
Obsolete 39    $a297659$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aBTCTA$beng$cBTCTA$dBDX$dUKMGB$dYDXCP$dCDX$dLTSCA$dDEBBG$dHF9$dDLC$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $alccopycat
LC Call 50 00 $aBD418.3$b.L49 2014
ME:Pers Name 100 $aLevy, Neil,$d1967-
Title 245 10 $aConsciousness and moral responsibility /$cNeil Levy.
Edition 250    $a1st ed.
Imprint 260    $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2014.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axii, 157 p. ;$c23 cm.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [136]-149) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aDoes consciousness matter? -- The consciousness thesis -- The global workspace -- What does consciousness do? -- Consciousness and the real self -- Consciousness and concrol -- Concluding thoughts.
Abstract 520    $aNeil Levy presents an original theory of freedom and responsibility. Cognitive neuroscience and psychology provide a great deal of evidence that our actions are often shaped by information of which we are not conscious; some psychologists have concluded that we are actually conscious of very few of the facts we respond to. But most people seem to assume that we need to be conscious of the facts we respond to in order to be responsible for what we do. Some thinkers have argued that this naive assumption is wrong, and we need not be conscious of these facts to be responsible, while others think it is correct and therefore we are never responsible. Levy argues that both views are wrong. He sets out and defends a particular account of consciousness-the global workspace view-and argues this account entails that consciousness plays an especially important role in action. We exercise sufficient control over the moral significance of our acts to be responsible for them only when we are conscious of the facts that give to our actions their moral character. Further, our actions are expressive of who we are as moral agents only when we are conscious of these same facts. There are therefore good reasons to think that the naive assumption, that consciousness is needed for moral responsibility, is in fact true. Levy suggests that this entails that people are responsible less often than we might have thought, but the consciousness condition does not entail that we are never morally responsible. -- Provided by publisher.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aConsciousness.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aResponsibility.