Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 2005-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0486440117
Brilliant and elegant in its treatment, Schopenhauer's 1839 essay on free will and determinism still remains relevant to modern readers. A useful introduction to the philosopher's work for students of philosophy or religion.
Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199311293
Our Fate collects John Martin Fischer's previously published articles on the relationship between God's foreknowledge and human freedom. The book includes a substantial new introductory essay that puts all of the chapters into a cohesive framework, and presents a bold new account of God's foreknowledge of free actions in a causally indeterministic world.
Author : Peter van Inwagen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : 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 : Peter Van Inwagen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198249241
Discusses the incompatibility of the concepts of free will and determinism and argues that moral responsibility needs the doctrine of free will
Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 1995-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1557868573
The Metaphysics of Free Will provides a through statement of the major grounds for skepticism about the reality of free will and moral responsibility. The author identifies and explains the sort of control that is associated with personhood and accountability, and shows how it is consistent with causal determinism. In so doing, out view of ourselves as morally responsible agents is protected against the disturbing changes posed by science and religion.
Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : 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 : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 048611306X
DIVBrilliant and elegant in its treatment, Schopenhauer's 1839 essay on free will and determinism still remains relevant to modern readers. A useful introduction to the philosopher's work for students of philosophy or religion. /div
Author : Daniel Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1443810762
The problem of free will has fascinated philosophers since ancient times: Do we have free will, or at least the kind of free will that seems necessary for moral responsibility? Does determinism – the idea that everything that happens is necessitated to happen, given the past and the laws of nature – threaten the commonly held assumption that we are indeed free and morally responsible? Although these questions have been widely discussed in the past, the present volume offers a variety of new perspectives from philosophers who have made significant contributions to this debate over recent years, including Derk Pereboom, Robert Kane, Ishtiyaque Haji, Michael McKenna, John Martin Fischer, David Widerker and Saul Smilansky. The emphasis in these essays is not merely on free will, but on allied notions such as moral responsibility, moral obligation, fairness and meaningfulness, and on whether any room can be made for these notions in a deterministic or an indeterministic universe.
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1412855608
This second edition of Free Will presents a complete treatment of the history of the debate over whether humans have free will. It analyzes the conditions under which actions must be characterized as unfree, and explores whether recent findings in brain physiology counter-indicate free will. Nicholas Rescher leads the reader through a conceptual web of distinctions that, taken together, provide a satisfying contribution to philosophical thought on free will. To determine if humans have free will, Rescher first examines exactly what free will is and how it should function. He examines the role of nature, nurture, and free choice, and he concludes that it is possible to validate the compatibility between freedom of the will and a certain special mode of determinism. Rescher sharpens his highly conceptual assessment by making distinctions between productive (or metaphysical) and moral (or motivational) freedom. He also distinguishes between free decision and free action, and motivational and causal determination of choices. In addition, he considers the distinction between durational events and the instantaneous outcomes that mark their commencements and completions, as well as between pre-determination and determination based on precedence. New in paperback and completely revised, this edition of Free Will represents a leading contemporary philosopher in top form.
Author : Peter B. Jung
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532661428
Free Will, also known as Freedom of the Will, is appraised as the one of the greatest works ever produced in America. The mid-eighteenth-century New England philosophical theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) defines the will by importing terms from John Locke. Edwards states the Arminian nature of free will, suspects the need for such free will, and finally defends Calvinist free will and objects to the Arminian one. In his argument, he chooses three British antagonists: Daniel Whitby, Thomas Chubb, and Isaac Watts. These antagonists insist that the self-determining will is necessary for us to be morally accountable. Edwards disputes their objections that God's determination is contradictory to the liberty of the human will. He then goes to argue what kind of freedom of the will is necessary for the former and latter to be compatible. Edwards's psychological, moral, and theological philosophy is displayed. In addition, readers can learn how our will chooses something pleasant by following the dictate of understanding, while the author demonstrates the natures of New England Arminianism and Calvinism.
