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Free will : a guide for the perplexed /
In everyday life, we often suppose ourselves to be free to choose between several courses of action. But if we examine further, we find that this view seems to rest on metaphysical and meta-ethical presuppositions almost all of which look problematic. How can we be free if everything is determined b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Guides for the perplexed.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.