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Author Vihvelin, Kadri

Title Causes, laws, and free will : why determinism doesn't matter / Kadri Vihvelin
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 284 pages)
Contents The problem introduced : Would determinism rob us of free will? -- The problem distinguished : Is it possible for us to have free will? Do we have free will? -- Abilities, choices, and agent causation -- The unavoidability of metaphysics : moral responsibility and ability to do otherwise -- Arguments for incompatibilism -- The abilities and dispositions of our freedom -- Laws, conterfactuals, and fixed past compatabilism
Summary This book rescues compatibilists from the familiar charge of 'quagmire of evasion' by arguing that the problem of free will and determinism is a metaphysical problem with a metaphysical solution. There is no good reason to think that determinism would rob us of the free will we think we have
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index
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Subject Free will and determinism.
Agent (Philosophy)
Act (Philosophy)
Choice (Psychology)
Personal Autonomy
Choice Behavior
PHILOSOPHY -- Free Will & Determinism.
Act (Philosophy)
Agent (Philosophy)
Choice (Psychology)
Free will and determinism
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
Ethics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0199795258
9780199345250
0199345252
9780199795253