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Causes, laws, and free will : why determinism doesn't matter / Kadri Vihvelin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vihvelin, Kadri, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free will and determinism.
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Act (Philosophy).
- Choice (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 284 pages)
- Other Title:
- Why determinism doesn't matter
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- OCLC:
- 864685327
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