Nature's challenge to free will / Bernard Berofsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berofsky, Bernard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bernard Berofsky argues that there is room in a deterministic world for a conception of free will as self-determination including the power of genuine choice. He grounds this compatibilist position in a new version of the regularity theory of laws, derived from David Hume's denial of necessary connections in nature.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Concepts of free will

3. Autonomy and self-determination

4. Source incompatibilism

5. Conditionalist compatibilism

6. Causal compatibilism

7. The consequence argument and determinism

8. The unalterability of laws and the reductionist strategy

9. Supervenience, autonomy, and physicalism

10. The regularity theory I: Humean supervenience

The regularity theory II: laws and accidental generalizations

12. Free will in a deterministic world.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012).

ISBN:

1-283-42689-7

9786613426895

0-19-162947-2

OCLC:

774290190