Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Free Will & Determinism

Was ist Willensschwache? Wie ist sie moglich, sollten wir sie vermeiden, warum sollten wir sie vermeiden? Das aus dem Alltag bekannte Phanomen wirft grundlegende Fragen fur die Handlungstheorie und Moralphilosophie auf. Mit Blick auf parallele Debatten in der Psychologie und Okonomie entwickelt Hofmann eine philosophische Analyse von Willensschwache, welche unser Verstandnis von praktischer Irrationalitat erweitert.

In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments." In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting -- those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility -- are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail.

Dennett tackles the question of free will in a highly original and witty...

Bernard Berofsky formulates a concept of determinism in terms that will be constructive for the continuing libertarian-determinist debate. His discussion will interest those who want a deeper understanding of this metaphysical doctrine, and anyone whose fundamental concern is with the nature of human responsibility and the possible threats to it posed by determinism.

Originally published in 1971.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton...

Stuart Hampshire's essay on human freedom offers an important analysis of concepts surrounding the central idea of intentional action.

The author contrasts the powers of animals and of inanimate things; examines the relation between power and action; and distinguishes between two kinds of self-knowledge. Explaining human freedom by means of this distinction, he focuses his attention on self-knowledge gained by introspection. He writes: ..".an individual who acquires more systematic knowledge of the causes of states of mind, emotion, and desires, insofar as these are not the outcome...

Con la llegada a la vida, el hombre parece introducido en un reino de felicidades y no es sino un cautiverio de desdichas.
Baltasar Gracian

En la oscura vida humana solo una cosa brilla por la que merezca la pena esforzarse, y esa es la tumba.
Philipp Mainlander

Una persona que se suicida usa un derecho sobre...

Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977, comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the major arguments as to the rights and responsibilities of property ownership. In particular, the arguments that hold that there are natural rights derived from first occupancy, labour, utility, liberty and virtue are considered, as are the standard anti-property arguments based on disutility, virtue and inequality, and the belief that justice in distribution must take precedence over private...