Free will : historical and analytic perspectives

Free will : historical and analytic perspectives / Marco Hausmann, Jörg Noller, editors.

This novel contributed volume advances the current debate on free will by bridging the divide between analytic and historically oriented approaches to the problem. With thirteen chapters by leading academics in the field, the volume is divided into three parts: free will and determinism, free will a...

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Other Authors: Hausmann, Marco (Editor), Noller, Jörg, 1984- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Subjects:
Free will and determinism.
Free will and determinism
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Free Will and Determinism
  • What Is Determinism? Why We Should Ditch the Entailment Definition
  • Aristotle and the Discovery of Determinism
  • Defending Free Will
  • Some Free Thinking About 'Thinking About Free Will'
  • Local-miracle compatibilism: a critque
  • Backtracking counterfactuals and agents' abilities
  • Moral necessity, agent causation, and the determination of free actions in Clarke and Leibniz
  • Part II: Free Will and Indeterminism
  • Indeterministic Compatibilism
  • The Culpability Problem and the Indeterminacy of Choice
  • Ambivalent Freedom: Kant and the Problem of Willkür
  • Determination, Chance and David Hume: On Freedom as a Power
  • Part III. Free Will and Moral Responsibility
  • Kant's Justification of Freedom as a Condition for Moral Imputation
  • Does "Ought" Imply "Can"?

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