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| Author | : John Randolph Lucas |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
The author, who pioneered this argument in 1961, here places it in the context of traditional discussions of the problem, and answers various criticisms that have been made.
| Author | : Sam Harris |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2012-03-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1451683405 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
| Author | : Dimitris Vardoulakis |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2016-08-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1438462417 |
Many of Kafka's narratives place their heroes in situations of confinement. Gregor Samsa is locked in his room in the Metamorphosis, and the land surveyor in The Castle is stuck in the village unable either to leave or to gain access to the castle. Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Kafka constructs these plots of confinement in order to laugh at his heroes' futile attempts to express their will. In this way, Kafka emerges as a critic of the free will and as a proponent of a different kind of freedom: one focused within the confines of one's experience and mediated by one's circumstances. Vardoulakis contends that his sense of humor is the key to understanding Kafka as a political thinker. Laughter, in this account, is the tool used to deconstruct power. By placing Kafka in dialogue with philosophy and political theory, Vardoulakis shows that Kafka can give us invaluable insights into how to be free—and how to laugh.
| Author | : Robert Lockie |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2018-01-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1350029068 |
In the first in-depth study of the transcendental argument for decades, Free Will and Epistemology defends a modern version of the famous transcendental argument for free will: that we could not be justified in undermining a strong notion of free will, as a strong notion of free will is required for any such process of undermining to be itself epistemically justified. By arguing for a conception of internalism that goes back to the early days of the internalist-externalist debates, it draws on work by Richard Foley, William Alston and Alvin Plantinga to explain the importance of epistemic deontology and its role in the transcendental argument. It expands on the principle that 'ought' implies 'can' and presents a strong case for a form of self-determination. With references to cases in the neuroscientific and cognitive-psychological literature, Free Will and Epistemology provides an original contribution to work on epistemic justification and the free will debate.
| Author | : R. C. Sproul |
| Publisher | : Baker Books |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2002-04-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1585581534 |
What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall. In Willing to Believe, Sproul traces the free-will controversy from its formal beginning in the fifth century, with the writings of Augustine and Pelagius, to the present. Readers will gain understanding into the nuances separating the views of Protestants and Catholics, Calvinists and Arminians, and Reformed and Dispensationalists. This book, like Sproul's Faith Alone, is a major work on an essential evangelical tenet.
| Author | : C. P. Ragland |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0190264454 |
In 'Giving Aid Effectively', Mark T. Buntaine argues that countries that are members of international organizations have prompted multilateral development banks to give development and environmental aid more effectively by generating better information about performance.
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| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-10-31 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9781108729673 |
This book offers translations of early critical reactions to Kant's account of free will. Spanning the years 1784-1800, the translations make available, for the first time in English, works by little-known thinkers including Pistorius, Ulrich, Heydenreich, Creuzer and others, as well as familiar figures including Reinhold, Fichte and Schelling. Together they are a testimony to the intense debates surrounding the reception of Kant's account of free will in the 1780s and 1790s, and throw into relief the controversies concerning the coherence of Kant's concept of transcendental freedom, the possibility of reconciling freedom with determinism, the relation between free will and moral imputation, and other arguments central to Kant's view. The volume also includes a helpful introduction, a glossary of key terms and biographical details of the critics, and will provide a valuable foundation for further research on free will in post-Kantian philosophy.
| Author | : Hugh J. McCann |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0190611200 |
The articles in the present collection deal with the religious dimension of the problem of free will. Together they provide a historical and contemporary overview of problems in the theology of freedom, along with recent work by some important philosophers in the field aimed at resolving those problems.
| Author | : Peter van Inwagen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2017-03-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107166500 |
This volume brings together van Inwagen's most significant essays in this major field, addressing key topics and including two entirely new chapters.
| Author | : Gary Watson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
The Aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university students or the general reader.
