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Humean Libertarianism.
What does it mean for an agent to be free? Is determinism true? What are laws of nature? This book deals with the interconnections between these questions. Backmann argues for the view that libertarianism can be reconciled with determinism. In order to reach this goal, libertarianism - classically d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; 1 Determinism; 1.1 Epistemic Determinism; 1.2 Logical Determinism; 1.3 Ontological Determinism; 1.3.1 Determinism in Quantum Theory; 1.3.1.1 Copenhagen-like Theories of Quantum Mechanics; 1.3.1.2 Bohmian Hidden Variables Theories; 2 Necessity and Laws of Nature; 2.1 Necessitarianism; 2.1.1 Armstrong, Tooley, and Dretske; 2.1.2 Bird; 2.2 Broadly Humean Accounts; 2.2.1 Orthodox Humeanism; 2.2.2 Best Systems; 3 Libertarianism; 3.1 Noncausalism; 3.2 Causalism: Agent Causation; 3.3 Causalism: Event Causation; 4 Objections against Event-causal Libertarianism.
- 4.1 Objections against Alternativism4.1.1 The Consequence Argument and the Truth of Determinism; 4.1.2 Frankfurt-style Cases; 4.1.3 Alternative Possibilities and Modern Science; 4.1.3.1 Jordan, Penrose, and Hameroff; 4.1.3.2 Kane; 4.1.3.3 Balaguer; 4.2 Objections against Control and a Humean Solution; 4.2.1 The Argument from Luck and Selected Responses; 4.2.1.1 Kane; 4.2.1.2 Mele; 4.2.1.3 Balaguer; 4.2.2 Libet's Experiment; 4.2.3 Control in Humean Libertarianism; 5 Humean Libertarianism: Fortes, Foibles, and Future Follies; References.