Causes, laws, and free will : why determinism doesn't matter / Kadri Vihvelin.

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 ha...

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Main Author: Vihvelin, Kadri
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
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520 8 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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