Free Will and Modern Science

Herausgeber: Swinburne, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

Do humans have the kind of free will which makes them morally responsible for their actions? Essays by distinguished scientists and philosophers investigate whether neuroscience, Quantum theory or mathematics show that human behaviour is or is not fully determined by prior brain states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780197264898
• ISBN-10: 0197264891
• Artikelnr.: 33722106

Autorenporträt

Richard Swinburne is Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
* Introduction
* 1: Patrick Haggard: Does Brain Science Change our View of Free Will?
* 2: Tim Bayne: Free Will and the Sciences of Human Agency
* 3: Richard Swinburne: Physicalism and the Determination of Action
* 4: Richard Swinburne: Dualism and the Determination of Action
* 5: Harald Atmanspacher and Stefan Rotter: Determinacy or its Absence
in the Brain
* 6: Solomon Feferman: Godel's incompleteness theorems, free will, and
mathematical thought
* 7: John Lucas: Response to Feferman
* 8: Galen Strawson: The Impossibility of Ultimate Moral
Responsibility?
* 9: Helen Steward: Moral Responsibility and the Concept of Agency
* 10: Howard Robinson: Substance Dualism and its Rationale
* 11: R.A. Duff: What Kind of Responsibility must Criminal Law
Presuppose?