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Author | : Kevin Timpe |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2008-07-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441115048 |
Much contemporary scholarship on free will focuses on whether it is compatible with causal determinism. According to compatibilists, it is possible for an agent to be determined in all her choices and actions and still be free. Incompatibilists, on the other hand, think that the existence of free will is incompatible with the truth of determinism. There are two dominant general conceptions of the nature of free will. According to the first of these, free will is primarily a function of being able to do otherwise than one in fact does. On this view, free will centrally depends upon alternative possibilities. The second approach focuses instead on issues of sourcehood, holding that free will is primarily a function of an agent being the source of her actions in a particular way. This book demarcates these two different conceptions free will, explores the relationship between them, and examines how they relate to the debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists. It ultimately argues for a version of Source Incompatibilism.
Author | : Wilbur Cross Library (University of Connecticut). Special Collections Department |
Publisher | : [Storrs] : University of Connecticut Library |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Underground press |
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Author | : Thomas Pink |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192508059 |
Thomas Pink offers a new approach to the problem of free will. Do we have control of how we act, so that we are free to act in more than one way, and does it matter to morality whether we do? Pink argues that what matters to morality is not in fact the freedom to do otherwise, but something more primitive - a basic capacity or power to determine for ourselves what we do. This capacity might or might not take the form of a freedom to act in more than one way, and it might or might not be compatible with causal determinism. What really matters to morality is that it is we who determine what we do. What we do must not simply be a function of powers or capacities for which we are not responsible, or a matter of mere chance. At the heart of moral responsibility is a distinctive form of power that is quite unlike ordinary causation - a power by which we determine outcomes in a way quite differently from the way ordinary causes determine outcomes. Pink examines how this power is involved in action, and how the nature of action permits the operation of such a power to determine it.
Author | : Lawrence Pearsall Jacks |
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Total Pages | : 892 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Ray C. Rist |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 135131954X |
Structured schools, free schools, graded schools, ungraded schools, no schools at all—the conflicts over public education in America rage on, for contemporary schools have not lived up to our expectations. The essence of the criticism reflected in the essays in this volume is that America's dual educational goals—free inquiry and social mobility-are not being met. Instead of producing enlightened citizens capable of high social and economic mobility, our schools have become warehouses of children stored as commodities, docile and immobile.
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Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : Miloslav Bednář |
Publisher | : CRVP |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781565180567 |
Past experiences of unfreedom and the new freedom; national character and democracy; self-identification in Czech Artistic culture.
Author | : Albert Okechukwu Ikpenwa |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3643901321 |
This work focuses on economic activities, especially in the era of globalization, taking into consideration, their relationship with some of the traditional values of the Church. It focuses particurlarly on the dignity of the human person and how such relationship can promote or alienate the human person from God, self, fellow humans, society and nature. Rev. Father Dr. Albert Okechukwu Ikpenwa holds B. Phil. and BD from Pontifical Urban University, Rome; Masters and Doctorate degrees from Alphonsian Academy "Alfonsianum", Higher Institute of Moral Theology of the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome.
Author | : James R. Mensch |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1988-07-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438412827 |
The threat of solipcism nagged Husserl. The question of the status of others occupied him during the last years of his life and remained a question that seemed to challenge the foundation of his life's work. This book offers new answers to this persistent philosophical question by defining the question in specifically Husserlian terms and by means of a careful examination of Husserl's later texts, including the unpublished Nachlass.
Author | : Jean-Pierre Boulé |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0857453211 |
At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in the 1940s, particularly in France, is still relevant as a way of interpreting the world today. Film, by reflecting philosophical concerns in the actions and choices of characters, continues and extends a tradition in which art exemplifies the understanding of existentialist philosophy. In a scholarly yet accessible style, the contributors exploit the rich interplay between Sartre’s philosophy, plays and novels, and a number of contemporary films including No Country for Old Men, Lost in Translation and The Truman Show, with film-makers including the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke, and Mike Leigh. This volume will be of interest to students who are coming to Sartre’s work for the first time and to those who would like to read films within an existentialist perspective.