Free Will and Luck

Name: Free Will and Luck
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ISBN: 9780195374391

ISBN-10: 0195374398

ISBN-13: 9780195374391

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alfred R. Mele

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Mele's ultimate purpose in this book is to help readers think more clearly about free will. He identifies and makes vivid the most important conceptual obstacles to justified belief in the existence of free will and meets them head on. Mele clarifies the central issue in the philosophical debate about free will and moral responsibility, criticizes various influential contemporary theories about free will, and develops two overlapping conceptions of free will - one for readers who are convinced that free will is incompatible with determinism (incompatibilists), and the other for readers who are convinced of the opposite (compatibilists). Mele's theory offers an original perspective on an…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.11" wide x 5.51" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English




Introduction



Free Will and Neuroscience



Libertarianism, Luck, and Control



Frankfurt-style Cases, Luck, and Soft Libertarianism



A Daring Soft Libertarian Response to Present Luck



Compatibilism: Objections and Replies



My Compatibilist Proposal: Objections and Replies



Conclusion


References


Index