Free Will

Ed. by Gary Watson

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together influential contributions to the topic of free will during the second half of the 20th century as well as some cutting-edge research.
Topics explored include: the relation between necessity, acting freely, and freedom to act otherwise; different accounts of the capacity for free agency, and the ways in which it can be compromised; grounds for scepticism about free agency and discussions of the relation between free will and responsibility.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Readings in Philosophy
• Verlag: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• 2. Aufl. 2003.
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 135mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780199254941
• ISBN-10: 019925494X
• Artikelnr.: 11578163

Autorenporträt

Gary Watson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Roderick M. Chisholm: Human Freedom and the Self
* 2: Peter van Inwagen: An Argument for Incompatibilism
* 3: J.J.C Smart: Free Will, Praise and Blame
* 4: Peter Strawson: Freedom and Resentment
* 5: David Wiggins: Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism
* 6: David Lewis: Are We Free to Break the Laws?
* 7: Hilary Bok: Freedom and Practical Reason
* 8: Harry G. Frankfurt: Alternative Possibilities and Moral
Responsibility
* 9: David Widerker: Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the
Principle of Alternative Possibilities
* 10: John Martin Fischer: Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism
* 11: Galen Strawson: The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility
* 12: Thomas Nagel: Freedom
* 13: Timothy O'Connor: Agent Causation
* 14: Randolph Clarke: Toward a Credible Agent-Causal Account of Free
Will
* 15: Robert Kane: Responsibility, Luck, and Chance: Reflections on
Free Will and Indeterminism
* 16: Harry G. Frankfurt: Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a
Person
* 17: Gary Watson: Free Agency
* 18: T.M. Scanlon: The Significance of Choice
* 19: Susan Wolf: Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility
* 20: Philip Pettit and Michael Smith: Freedom in Belief and Desire
* 21: Rogers Albritton: Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action
* 22: R. Jay Wallace: Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some
Philosophical Reflections
* Notes on the contributors
* Selected bibliography
* Index of names