Determinism And Free Will
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Author |
: Kadri Vihvelin |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2013-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199795185 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199795185 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Causes, Laws, and Free Will by : Kadri Vihvelin
This book rescues compatibilists from the familiar charge of 'quagmire of evasion' by arguing that the problem of free will and determinism is a metaphysical problem with a metaphysical solution. There is no good reason to think that determinism would rob us of the free will we think we have.
Author |
: Christian List |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2019-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674239814 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674239814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Free Will Is Real by : Christian List
A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging what many scientists and scientifically minded philosophers believe. Philosophers have argued about the nature and the very existence of free will for centuries. Today, many scientists and scientifically minded commentators are skeptical that it exists, especially when it is understood to require the ability to choose between alternative possibilities. If the laws of physics govern everything that happens, they argue, then how can our choices be free? Believers in free will must be misled by habit, sentiment, or religious doctrine. Why Free Will Is Real defies scientific orthodoxy and presents a bold new defense of free will in the same naturalistic terms that are usually deployed against it. Unlike those who defend free will by giving up the idea that it requires alternative possibilities to choose from, Christian List retains this idea as central, resisting the tendency to defend free will by watering it down. He concedes that free will and its prerequisites—intentional agency, alternative possibilities, and causal control over our actions—cannot be found among the fundamental physical features of the natural world. But, he argues, that’s not where we should be looking. Free will is a “higher-level” phenomenon found at the level of psychology. It is like other phenomena that emerge from physical processes but are autonomous from them and not best understood in fundamental physical terms—like an ecosystem or the economy. When we discover it in its proper context, acknowledging that free will is real is not just scientifically respectable; it is indispensable for explaining our world.
Author |
: Sam Harris |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 96 |
Release |
: 2012-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781451683400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1451683405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Free Will by : Sam Harris
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 |
: Gregg D. Caruso |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739171363 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739171364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Free Will and Consciousness by : Gregg D. Caruso
In recent decades, with advances in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences, the idea that patterns of human behavior may ultimately be due to factors beyond our conscious control has increasingly gained traction and renewed interest in the age-old problem of free will. In this book, Gregg D. Caruso examines both the traditional philosophical problems long associated with the question of free will, such as the relationship between determinism and free will, as well as recent experimental and theoretical work directly related to consciousness and human agency. He argues that our best scientific theories indeed have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform and that because of this we do not possess the kind of free will required for genuine or ultimate responsibility. It is further argued that the strong and pervasive belief in free will, which the author considers an illusion, can be accounted for through a careful analysis of our phenomenology and a proper theoretical understanding of consciousness. Indeed, the primary goal of this book is to argue that our subjective feeling of freedom, as reflected in the first-person phenomenology of agentive experience, is an illusion created by certain aspects of our consciousness.
Author |
: Fabio Scardigli |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 123 |
Release |
: 2019-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030055059 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030055051 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Determinism and Free Will by : Fabio Scardigli
In this small book, theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel prize 1999), philosopher Emanuele Severino (Lincei Academician), and theologian Piero Coda (Pontifical Lateran University) confront one another on a topic that lies at the roots of quantum mechanics and at the origin of Western thought: Determinism and Free Will. "God does not play dice" said Einstein, a tenacious determinist. Quantum Mechanics and its clash with General Relativity have reanimated ancient dilemmas about chance and necessity: Is Nature deterministic? Is Man free? The “free-will theorem” by Conway and Kochen, and the deterministic interpretation of quantum mechanics proposed by 't Hooft, revive such philosophical questions in modern Physics. Is Becoming real? Is the Elementary Event a product of the Case? The cyclopean clash between Heraclitus and Parmenides has entered a new episode, as evidenced by the essays in this volume.
Author |
: Bernard Berofsky |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2012-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199640010 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199640017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nature's Challenge to Free Will by : Bernard Berofsky
This book offers a defense of humean compatibilism, which bases the belief in the compatibility of free will and determinism on David Hume's idea that laws do not uphold the existence of necessary connections in nature.
Author |
: John Martin Fischer |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2009-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781405182041 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1405182040 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Four Views on Free Will by : John Martin Fischer
Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moralresponsibility, and determinism, this text represents the mostup-to-date account of the four major positions in the free willdebate. Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposingviewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism,and revisionism The first half of the book contains each philosopher’sexplanation of his particular view; the second half allows them todirectly respond to each other’s arguments, in a lively andengaging conversation Offers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussion Forms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophyseries
Author |
: Robert Lockie |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2018-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350029064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350029068 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Free Will and Epistemology by : Robert Lockie
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 |
: Julian Baggini |
Publisher |
: Granta Books |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2015-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847087195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847087191 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Freedom Regained by : Julian Baggini
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fixed early on by a mixture of nature and nurture, or is the possibility of comprehensive, intentional psychological change always open to us? What role does our brain play in the construction of free will, and how much scientific evidence is there for the existence of it? What exactly are we talking about when we talk about 'freedom' anyway? In this cogent and compelling book, Julian Baggini explores the concept of free will from every angle, blending philosophy, neuroscience, sociology and cognitive science. Freedom Regained brings the issues raised by the possibilities - and denials - of free will to vivid life, drawing on scientific research and fascinating encounters with expert witnesses, from artists to addicts, prisoners to dissidents. Contemporary thinking tells us that free will is an illusion, and Baggini challenges this position, providing instead a new, more positive understanding of our sense of personal freedom: a freedom worth having.
Author |
: E. F. Schumacher |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 1978-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780060906115 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0060906111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED by : E. F. Schumacher
The author of the world wide best-seller, Small Is Beautiful, now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living. Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. man has obligations -- to other men, to the earth, to progress and technology, but most importantly himself. If man can fulfill these obligations, then and only then can he enjoy a real relationship with the world, then and only then can he know the meaning of living. Schumacher says we need maps: a "map of knowledge" and a "map of living." The concern of the mapmaker--in this instance, Schumacher--is to find for everything it's proper place. Things out of place tend to get lost; they become invisible and there proper places end to be filled by other things that ought not be there at all and therefore serve to mislead. A Guide for the Perplexed teaches us to be our own map makers. This constantly surprising, always stimulating book will be welcomed by a large audience, including the many new fans who believe strongly in what Schumacher has to say.