Richard Double (Edinboro University) has posted Review of John Lemos' A pragmatic Approach to Libertarian Free Will (Criminal Law, Philosophy (2020)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In this book, John Lemos shows how to be a libertarian by arguing for libertarianism on pragmatic rather than evidential grounds. Lemos relies heavily on Kantian moral premises, especially the Principle of Ends and the “Ought” implies “Can” precept. Add to these a rejection of compatibilism and we have a formidable line of reasoning that concludes that we morally should adopt libertarianism. Along the way, Lemos argues that libertarians are not hard-hearted in advocating punishment for persons when we have no epistemic evidence of their guilt. In this review, I examine Lemos’ pragmatic approach.