Free will: a guide for the perplexed
How can we be free if everything is determined by factors beyond our control, stretching back in time to the Big Bang and the laws of nature operating then? Does not randomness hinder you from being the author of your actions? This book looks at how much of the structure of our everyday judgments can survive the arguments behind such questions.
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- Full title :Free will : a guide for the perplexed / T.J. Mawson.
Summary
How can we be free if everything is determined by factors beyond our control, stretching back in time to the Big Bang and the laws of nature operating then? Does not randomness hinder you from being the author of your actions? This book looks at how much of the structure of our everyday judgments can survive the arguments behind such questions.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Continuum
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:196 p.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781441196231, 1441196234, 9781441102096, 1441102094
- oclc:ocn767470343
- LC Classification:BJ1461
- Dewey Decimal:123/.5
Table of Contents
Introduction : what is the problem of free will?. Our experience of choice : what our everyday experience suggests about the existence and nature of free will -- Incompatibilism : some classic and some modern arguments for and against the view that we can't have free will if we live in a deterministic universe -- Indeterminism : whether we have reason to suppose our universe is deterministic, whether we have reason to suppose it is not, or whether we don't have reason either way -- Ultimate authorship : how we might be the ultimate authors of our actions -- Conclusion : how we are as we supposed ourselves to be.
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