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Merit, Meaning, and Human Bondage : An Essay on Free Will /

Perhaps everything we think, feel, and do is determined, and humans--like stones or clouds--are slaves to the laws of nature. Would that be a terrible state? Philosophers who take the incompatibilist position think so, arguing that a deterministic world would be one without moral responsibility and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arpaly, Nomy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Praise and blame: toward a new compatibilism.
  • Reason responsiveness in a deterministic world.
  • Ought implies can? An argument from epistemology.
  • The science fiction of mind design.
  • When cheap will just won't do.