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Puzzles for the Will.
Issues of free will and determinism, with their far-reaching practical implications, hold a central place in the history of philosophy. In this book Jordan Howard Sobel looks at the many and varied approaches to this complex problem.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Toronto studies in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- 1 LOGICAL FATALISMS
- Che Sarà Sarà, minimal 'naive' fatalism
- An Idle Argument, 'It makes no difference what we do'
- Appendix: Other Fatalisms
- 2 PREDICTED CHOICES
- First Day
- Newcomb's Problem
- Appointments with Death
- Second Day
- Discussion of The Samarra Problem
- Newcomb's Problem
- beyond predictions
- caused choices
- Appendix
- John O'Hara and The Appointment
- Oedipus Rex and another appointment
- 3 FREE WILL AND VARIETIES OF DETERMINISM
- Forms of Determinism
- causal
- block-universe
- Choices, Actions, and Free Will
- Modes of Determinism
- necessary
- fixed-laws
- fixed-past
- Compatibilities and Incompatibilities
- with ancient causes
- without ancient causes
- with malleable pasts
- with miracles
- 4 NEWCOMB DĒNŬŌ, OMNISCIENCE, AND 'CHOICELESS FREEDOM'
- Newcomb's Problem and Rational Choice
- Divine Omniscience and the Past
- Fischer's Semi-Compatibilism
- Appendix: Three Arguments from Fischer for the Incompatibility of Determinism and Freedom of Choice
- LOOKING BACK
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Z.