Free Will / edited by Sidney Morgenbesser, James Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgenstern, Sidney, 1921-2004.

Contributor:

Walsh, James J. (James Jerome), 1924-

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Spectrum book ; S-35.

A Spectrum book ; S-35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 171 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1962]

Contents:

Introduction

I. Background. from On Free Will / St. Augustine; from The Spirit and the Letter / St. Augustine; from Summa Theologica / St. Thomas Aquinas; from The Oxford Commentary / John Duns Scotus; from The Questions concerning Liberty, Necessity, and Chance / Thomas Hobbes

II. Determinism. from An Examination of Sir. William Hamilton's Philosophy / John Stuart Mill; Free Will as Involving Determinism / Philippa Foot; "I Can" / Richard Taylor

III. Libertarianism. from Being and Nothingness / Jean-Paul Sartre; Determinism, Indeterminism, and Libertarianism / C. D. Broad

IV. The Voluntary. from Ethica Eudemia / Aristotle; Negligence, Mens Read, and Criminal Responsibility / H. L. A. Hart.

Notes:

Publisher's advertisements: [3] pages at end.

"Cover Design by Andrew P. Zutis."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-171)

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok January 1963 Philadelphia".

Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.

OCLC:

375352