In this book, Derk Pereboom provides further elaboration and defense of his long-standing vision of a world without retributivism ... The result is exactly what we have come to expect from Pereboom: a dialectically engaged, avowedly revisionist, humanely pursued vision of life after "basic desert" ... His claims and ideas will resonate further, interacting with a variety of thinkers from a broader swath of philosophy. I recommend it for those near and far.

Pamela Hieronymi, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

This is a terrific book. It will be of serious interest to those working on free will and moral responsibility, those working on moral emotions, philosophers of religion, legal theorists interested in criminal responsibility and punishment, and ethicists working on defensive harm and war ethics among others. The book offers original and important contributions on topics in all of these areas, and they are unified by being parts of the exploration of the implications of free will skepticism and providing a coherent and mutually supporting picture what our emotional and ethical lives should be like.

Dana Nelkin, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

In Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions Pereboom offers a new and wide-ranging account of what remains when we reject the idea that people are at least sometimes - and in at least one important sense - morally responsible for what they do ... As always, Pereboom is inventive, nuanced, and scrupulously responsive to critics of his views. No book this radical in its aims can hope to secure widespread agreement, but it will undoubtedly be a landmark for future discussions of culpability, moral psychology, hope, and the philosophy of punishment.

Manuel Vargas, The Philosophical Review