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How physics makes us free / J.T. Ismael.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ismael, Jenann, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Most philosophical books on free will start by saying "physics tells us that all of our actions are determined by fundamental laws of nature (perhaps with some quantum randomness thrown in)." Built around these simple remarks is a highly articulated landscape of philosophical responses to the challenge physics is supposed to present to human freedom. Ismael aims to give a better account of what physics tells us, the parts that are settled and the parts that are unsettled.
- Contents:
- The place of selves in the natural order
- What am I?
- The rise of the self-governor
- The unity of self
- Appendix for slackers
- The place of action in the natural order
- How can I be free if my actions are determined by physical laws? The consequence argument
- How can I be free if my actions are caused by things outside of my control? Causation
- The open future
- The paradox of predictability
- Fatalism
- Self-constitution: the making of the self.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 11, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-026946-4
- 0-19-026947-2
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