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Oxford Handbook of Free Will

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ISBN-10: 0195399692

ISBN-13: 9780195399691

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Robert Kane

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This second edition of theOxford Handbook of Free Will is intended to be a sourcebook and guide to current work on free will and related subjects. Its focus is on writings of the past forty years, in which there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional issues about the freedom of the will in the light of new developments in the sciences, philosophy and humanistic studies. Special attention is given to research on free will of the first decade of the twenty-first century since the publication of the first edition of the Handbook. All the essays have been newly written or rewritten for this volume. In addition, there are new essayists and essays surveying topics that have become…    
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Book details

List price: $53.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 9.69" wide x 6.81" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 2.618
Language: English

Contributors
Introduction: The Contours of Contemporary Free-Will Debates (Part 2)
Theology and Free Will
Divine Knowledge and Human Freedom
Physics, Determinism, and Indeterminism
Quantum Physics, Consciousness, and Free Will
Chaos, Indeterminism, and Free Will
The Causal Closure of Physics and Free Will
The Consequence Argument for Incompatibilism
The Consequence Argument Revisited
A Compatibilist Reply to the Consequence Argument
Compatibilist Perspectives on Freedom and Responsibility
Compatibilism without Frankfurt: Dispositional Analyses of Free Will
Contemporary Compatibilism: Mesh Theories and Reasons-Responsive Theories
Moral Sense and the Foundations of Responsibility
Who's Still Afraid of Determinism? Rethinking Causes and Possibilities
Moral Responsibility, Alternative Possibilities, and Frankfurt-Type Examples
Frankfurt-Type Examples and Semicompatibilism: New Work
Frankfurt-Friendly Libertarianism
Obligation, Reason, and Frankfurt Examples
Libertarian Perspectives on Free Agency and Free Will
Agent-Causal Theories of Freedom
Alternatives for Libertarians
Freedom and Action without Causation: Noncausal Theories of Freedom and Purposive Agency
Free Will Is Not a Mystery
Rethinking Free Will: New Perspectives on an Ancient Problem
Further Views and Issues: Hard Determinism, Hard Incompatibilism, Illusionism, Revisionism, Promises, and Rollbacks
Free-Will Skepticism and Meaning in Life
Free Will, Fundamental Dualism, and the Centrality of Illusion
Effects, Determinism, neither Compatibilism nor Incompatibilism, Consciousness
Revisionist Accounts of Free Will: Origins, Varieties, and Challenges
A Promising Argument
Rollbacks, Endorsements, and Indeterminism
Neuroscience, Psychology, Experimental Philosophy, and Free Will
Free Will and Science
Contributions of Neuroscience to the Free Will Debate: From Random Movement to Intelligible Action
Free Will and the Bounds of the Self
Intuitions about Free Will, Determinism, and Bypassing
References
Index