| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 638 pages) illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction. The contours of contemporary free will debates / Robert Kane -- Recent work on divine foreknowledge and free will / Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski -- Fatalism / Mark Bernstein -- Quantum physics, consciousness, and free will / David Hodgson -- Chaos, indeterminism, and free will / Robert C. Bishop -- A master argument for incompatibilism? / Tomis Kapitan -- Free will remains a mystery / Peter van Inwagen -- Ifs, cans, and free will : the issues / Bernard Berofsky -- Compatibilist views of freedom and responsibility / Ishtiyaque Haji -- Pessimists, Pollyannas, and the new compatibilism / Paul Russell -- Who's afraid of determinism? Rethinking causes and possibilities / Christopher Taylor ; / Daniel Dennett -- Frankfurt-type examples and semi-compatibilism / John Martin Fischer -- Libertarianism and Frankfurt-style cases / Laura Waddell Ekstrom -- Responsibility and Frankfurt-type examples / David Widerker -- Libertarian views : dualist and agent-causal theories / Timothy O'Connor -- Libertarian views : critical survey of noncausal and event-causal accounts of free agency / Randolph Clarke -- Reasons explanations of action : causalist versus noncausalist accounts / Carl Ginet -- Some neglected pathways in the free will labyrinth / Robert Kane -- The bounds of freedom / Galen Strawson -- Determinism as true, compatibilism and incompatibilism as false, and the real problem / Ted Honderich -- Living without free will : the case for hard incompatibilism / Derk Pereboom -- Free will, fundamental dualism, and the centrality of illusion / Saul Smilansky -- Metaethics, metaphilosophy, and free will subjectivism / Richard Double -- Autonomy, self-control, and weakness of will / Alfred R. Mele -- Do we have free will? / Benjamin Libet -- Neurophilosophy of free will / Henrik Walter |
| Summary |
The Oxford Handbook of Free Will provides a guide to current scholarship on the perennial problem of free will—perhaps the most hotly and voluminously debated of all philosophical problems. While reference is made throughout to the contributions of major thinkers of the past, the emphasis is on recent research. The articles combine the work of established scholars with younger thinkers who are beginning to make significant contributions. The book is divided into eight parts: Part I (Theology and Fatalism), Part II (Physics, Determinism, and Indeterminism), Part III (The Modal or Consequence Argument for Incompatibilism). Part IV (Compatibilist Perspectives on Freedom and Responsibility), Part V (Moral Responsibility, Alternative Possibilities, and Frankfurt-Style), Part VI (Libertarian Perspectives on Free Agency and Free Will), Part VII (Nonstandard Views: Successor Views to Hard Determinism and Others), and Part VIII (Neuroscience and Free Will). Taken as a whole, the book provides a roadmap to the state of the art thinking on this enduring topic |
| Notes |
9780195178548 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Free will and determinism.
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Personal Autonomy
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Free will and determinism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kane, Robert, 1938-
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| ISBN |
9780199995462 |
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019999546X |
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