Free will : historical and analytic perspectives / Marco Hausmann, Jörg Noller, editors.
Hausmann, Marco, editor.; Noller, Jörg, 1984- editor.
2021
BJ1461 .F74 2021eb
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Free will : historical and analytic perspectives / Marco Hausmann, Jörg Noller, editors.
ISBN
9783030611361 (electronic bk.)
3030611361 (electronic bk.)
9783030611354
3030611353
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61136-1
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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©2021
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English
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1 online resource (ix, 341 pages : illustrations)
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10.1007/978-3-030-61136-1 doi
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BJ1461 .F74 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
123.5
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This novel contributed volume advances the current debate on free will by bridging the divide between analytic and historically oriented approaches to the problem. With thirteen chapters by leading academics in the field, the volume is divided into three parts: free will and determinism, free will and indeterminism, and free will and moral responsibility. The contributors aim to initiate a philosophical discourse that profits from a combination of the two approaches. On the one hand, the analytic tools familiar from the debate arguments, concepts, and distinctions can be used to sharpen our understanding of classical philosophical positions. On the other hand, the rich philosophical tradition can be reconstructed so as to inspire new solutions. In recent years, the problem of free will has received special attention in the analytic arena. This is the first anthology to combine historical and analytic perspectives, significantly furthering the debate, and providing a crucial resource to academics and advanced students alike.
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References-7: Backtracking Counterfactuals and Agents' Abilities-1 Introduction-2 Fixed-Laws Compatibilism: A Primer-3 Different Modalities?-4 Fischer's Argument for (FPFL)-5 Counterfactuals and Rationality-References-8: Moral Necessity, Agent Causation, and the Determination of Free Actions in Clarke and Leibniz-1 Introduction-2 Brief Overview of Leibniz's Theory of Freedom-3 Activity, Self-Motion, and Agent-Causation in Clarke-4 Determination, Moral Necessity, and Final Causation in Clarke-4.1 God's Inability to Choose Sub-optimal Options.
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Introduction
Part I: Free Will and Determinism
What Is Determinism? Why We Should Ditch the Entailment Definition
Aristotle and the Discovery of Determinism
Defending Free Will
Some Free Thinking About 'Thinking About Free Will'
Local-miracle compatibilism: a critque
Backtracking counterfactuals and agents' abilities
Moral necessity, agent causation, and the determination of free actions in Clarke and Leibniz
Part II: Free Will and Indeterminism
Indeterministic Compatibilism
The Culpability Problem and the Indeterminacy of Choice
Ambivalent Freedom: Kant and the Problem of Willkür
Determination, Chance and David Hume: On Freedom as a Power
Part III. Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Kant's Justification of Freedom as a Condition for Moral Imputation
Does "Ought" Imply "Can"?

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