Title Statements
- Full title :The metaphysics of free will : an essay on control / John Martin Fischer.
Summary
The Metaphysics of Free Will provides a through statement of the major grounds for skepticism about the reality of free will and moral responsibility. The author identifies and explains the sort of control that is associated with personhood and accountability, and shows how it is consistent with causal determinism. In so doing, out view of ourselves as morally responsible agents is protected against the disturbing changes posed by science and religion.
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- Publication Date:1994.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Blackwell
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1994.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 273 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:on1359002857
- LC Classification:BJ1461
- Dewey Decimal:123/.5
Table of Contents
The issues -- The transfer principle: its plausibility -- The transfer principle: its role -- The laws and the past: the conditional version of the argument -- The basic version and Newcomb's problem -- The facts -- Responsibility and alternative possibilities -- Moral responsibility and guidance control -- Putting it together.
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