Free Will

TRAMA

The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free will during the past 50 years, as well as some notable recent work. Topics explored in this collection include: the relation between necessity, acting freely, and freedom to act otherwise; different accounts of the capacity for free agency, and the ways in which it can be compromised; grounds for scepticism about free agency and discussions of the relation between free will and responsibility.

SOMMARIO

1 - Human Freedom and the Self2 - An Argument for Incompatibilism3 - Free Will, Praise and Blame4 - Freedom and Resentment5 - Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism6 - Are We Free to Break the Laws?7 - Freedom and Practical Reason8 - Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility9 - Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities10 - Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism11 - The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility12 - Freedom13 - Agent Causation14 - Toward a Credible Agent-Causal Account of Free Will15 - Responsibility, Luck, and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Indeterminism16 - Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person17 - Free Agency18 - The Significance of Choice19 - Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility20 - Freedom in Belief and Desire21 - Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action22 - Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical Reflections

AUTORE

Gary Watson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199254941
• Collana: Oxford Readings in Philosophy
• Dimensioni: 202 x 25.0 x 134 mm Ø 527 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 472