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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Table of 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.