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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Little Debates about Big Questions Ser |
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Little Debates about Big Questions Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Opening Statements -- 1 The Problem of Free Will: A Libertarian Perspective -- Introduction: An Ancient Problem with Modern Significance -- 1. Modern Debates and Views -- 2. The Compatibility Question: Alternative Possibilities and Ultimate Responsibility -- 3. Self-forming Actions -- 4. Freedom of Action and Freedom of Will: AP and UR -- 5. Plurality Conditions and Plural Voluntary Control -- 6. Will-Setting and Self-formation |
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7. The Compatibility Question Revisited: Free Will and Moral Responsibility -- 8. Fair Opportunity to Avoid Wrongdoing: Hart and Others -- 9. Reactive Attitudes, Criminal Trials and Transference of Responsibility -- 10. Transference of Responsibility and Compatibility Questions -- 11. Two Dimensions of Responsibility -- 12. Compatibilist Responses (I): Conditional Analyses -- 13. Compatibilist Responses (II): Frankfurt-Style Examples -- 14. The Intelligibility Question -- 15. Indeterminism: Empirical and Philosophical Questions |
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16. Initial Pieces: Self-formation, Efforts, Willpower, Volitional Streams -- 17. Indeterminism and Responsibility -- 18. Initial Questions and Objections: Indeterminism and Chance -- 19. Further Questions and Objections: Phenomenology and Rationality -- 20. Micro vs. Macro Control -- 21. Control and Responsibility -- 22. Agency, Complexity, Disappearing Agents -- 23. Regress Objections: Responsibility and Character Development -- 24. The Explanatory Luck Objection: Authors, Stories, Value Experiments and Liberum Arbitrium |
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25. Contrastive Explanations: Concluding Remarks on Huck Finn and Other Literary Figures -- 2 Free Will and Determinism: A Compatibilism -- Introduction -- 1. What Is a Theory of Free Will? -- 2. A Sketch of a Theory of Free Will -- 3. The Free Will Problem: Compatibilism and Incompatibilism -- 4. The Motivation for Compatibilism -- 5. Incompatibilist Arguments: Part I -- 6. Incompatibilist Arguments: Part II -- Conclusions -- First Round of Replies -- 3 Reply to Carolina Sartorio's Opening Statement -- Introduction: On Acting Freely: Some Significant Agreements |
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1. Acting Freely and Free Will: Some Significant Differences -- 2. Critique of Incompatibilist Views (Part I): The Consequence Argument and Being Powerless over the Past and Laws -- 3. Critique of Incompatibilist Views (Part II): Being Powerless and Acting Freely -- 4. Idle Aliens, Frankfurt-Style Examples and the Ability to Do Otherwise -- 5. Will-Setting, Responsibility and the Ability to Do Otherwise -- 6. Critique of Incompatibilist Views (Part III): Design Arguments -- 7. Free Will, Design Arguments and Religious Questions |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Conclusion: Freedom, Determinism, Indeterminism, Causation and Control |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sartorio, Carolina
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| ISBN |
9781000449440 |
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1000449440 |
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