Free Will

ISBN-13: 9781902683058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str.

Graham McFee

Opis

Free will remains one of the great problems in philosophy. Whether human choices and actions are causally dtermined or are in a way free and the implications of this for our moral, personal and social lives continues to challenge philosophers. This introduction to the problem of free will aims to provide students with an assured grasp of the central issues and the ability to analyze and evaluate the ideas and arguments involved with control, judgement and precision. Focusing primarily on the central determinist argument, the author demonstrates for the student what scrupulous and persistent philosophical inquiry of an analytical kind looks and feels like in practice.

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgements 1. Free will: the issue 2. Determinism: exposition 3. Determinism: qualifications and clarifications 4. Libertarianism: two varieties 5. Compatibilism I: the utilitarian position 6. Compatibilism II: the two-language view 7. The irrelevance of determinism 8. The very idea of causal necessity 9. Conclusions and reflections on philosophical method Appendix: chaos theory and determinism Notes Further reading Bibliography Index

O autorze

Graham McFee