Free Will

Name: Free Will
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ISBN: 9780631221029

ISBN-10: 0631221026

ISBN-13: 9780631221029

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robert Kane

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Free Will brings together the essential readings in the debate about free will and determinism. Written by top scholars in the field, the essays represent some of the clearest and most accessible thinking on this subject. The introduction offers a concise yet thorough mapping of this age-old debate as well as a helpful overview of the selections. To what extent are we truly free? Are our actions determined? If so, are we morally responsible for our actions? And does such determinism necessarily conflict with free will? This volume covers wide-ranging issues in the debate about free will, including the distinction between freedom of choice and freedom of will, moral responsibility,…

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.06" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Robert Kane



The Free Will Problem: Standard Positions: Compatibilism, Libertarianism, Hard and Soft Determinism



Walden Two: Freedom and the Behavioral Sciences




The Compatibility of Freedom and Determinism




Human Freedom and the Self




Hard and Soft Determinism




The Compatibility / Incompatibility Question: Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility



The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism




I Could Not Have Done Otherwise -- So What?




Frankfurt-style Examples, Responsibility and Semi-compatibilism




The Explanatory Irrelevance of Alternative Possibilities




Hierarchical Motivation, Deep Self Theories and Reactive Attitudes: New Compatibilist Theories



Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person




Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility




Responsibility and the Limits of Evil; Variations on a Strawsonian Theme




The Intelligibility Question: Libertarian or Incompatibilist Views of Free Agency and Free Will



The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom




The Agent as Cause




Freedom, Responsibility and Agency




Free Will: New Directions for an Ancient Problem




Chess, Life and Superlife




Religion and Free Will: Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom



Divine Foreknowledge, Evil, and the Free Choice of the Will




God, Time, Knowledge and Freedom: The Historical Matrix



Glossary


Bibliography


Index