Free Will & Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783319992945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 154 str.

Filip Grgic; Davor Pecnjak

Opis

This book consists of eleven new essays that provide new insights into classical and contemporary issues surrounding free will and human agency. Also tackling some historical precursors of contemporary debates, taken together these essays demonstrate the need for an approach that recognizes the multifaceted nature of free will.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Practical Knowledge, Formal Causation and Difference-Making in Acting Intentionally (Urlike Mürbe).- Chapter 2. Wide Content Explanations (Ljudevit Hanžek).- Chapter 3. Free Deliberation (Davor Pećnjak).- Chapter 4. Kane, Balaguer, Libertarianism, and Luck (John Lemos).- Chapter 5. The Situationist Challenge to Free Will (Brian Garvey).- Chapter 6. Narration and the Normative Theory of Freedom (Adam J. Graves).- Chapter 7. Psychopathy, Identification and Mental Time Travel (Luca Malatesti and Filip Ceč).- Chapter 8. The Earliest “Quantum Missionaries” of Free Will: Their Physics, Politics and Religion (Boris Kožnjak).- Chapter 9. Aristotelian Deliberation Between Compatibilism and Incompatibilism (Filip Grgić).- Chapter 10.- Hobbes and Bramhall on (Free) Will and Freedom (Zoran Gjivo Mimica).- Chapter 11. D’Holbach’s Scholastic Conception of the Will (Hasse Hämäläinen).

O autorze

Filip Grgić (PhD, University of Zagreb) is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb and is currently serving as its Director. His main interests are in ancient philosophy and metaphysics.

Davor Pećnjak (PhD, University of Zagreb) is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. His area of interest includes the problem of free will, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion.

Blurb

This book consists of eleven new essays that provide new insights into classical and contemporary issues surrounding free will and human agency. They investigate topics such as the nature of practical knowledge and its role in intentional action; mental content and explanations of action; recent arguments for libertarianism; the situationist challenge to free will; freedom and a theory of narrative configuration; the moral responsibility of the psychopath; and free will and the indeterminism of quantum mechanics. Also tackling some historical precursors of contemporary debates, taken together these essays demonstrate the need for an approach that recognizes the multifaceted nature of free will. This book provides essential reading for anyone interested in the current scholarship on free will.