Libertarian free will : contemporary debates / edited by David Palmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmer, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Libertarianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 235 pages)

Other Title:

Contemporary debates

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title provides a collection of essays on the libertarian position on free will and related issues that focus specifically on the views of philosopher Robert Kane. Written by a distinguished group of philosophers, the essays range from various areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of mind.

Contents:

Free Will, Libertarianism, and Kane / David Palmer

Can an Indeterministic Cause Leave a Choice Up to the Agent? / Carl Ginet

Free Will and Metaphysics / Timothy O'Connor

Kane, Luck, and Control: Trying to Get by without Too Much Effort / Alfred R. Mele

Toward a Solution to the Luck Problem / John Martin Fischer

Compatibilist Ultimacy: Resisting the Threat of Kane's U Condition / Michael McKenna

The Direct Argument for Incompatibilism / David Widerker and Ira M. Schnall

Freedom, Responsibility, and Ommitting to Act / Randolph Clarke

Responsibility for Emotions, Alternative Possibilities, and Reasons / Ishtiyaque Haji

Moral Responsibility, the Reactive Attitudes, and the Significance of (Libertarian) Free Will / Dana Kay Nelkin

The Dialectic of Selfhood and the Significance of Free Will / Derk Pereboom

New Arguments in Debates on Libertarian Free Will: Responses to Contributors / Robert Kane.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 10, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-020000-6