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Ishtiyaque Haji, Obligation and Responsibility, Oxford University Press, 2023, 280pp., $98.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780197657829.
Reviewed by Derk Pereboom, Cornell University
Since the 1990s, Ishtiyaque Haji has set out a number of concerns for morality that derive from causal determinism’s threat to our ability to do otherwise. In Obligation and Responsibility, he develops these concerns in innovative and interesting ways. Some of these are advances on his previous arguments, but the new book also features several new and challenging avenues of inquiry.
In Chapter 1, Haji sets up the plan of the book with Four Putative Contrasts, three of which he rejects (1, 2, and 4), and one of which he accepts (3):
1. Moral responsibility, and blameworthiness in particular (and it’s the basic desert sense that’s at issue), does not require the ability to do otherwise. Evidence for this is provided by the success of Frankfurt…
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