Bernard Berofsky argues that there is room in a deterministic world for a conception of free will as self-determination including the power of genuine choice. He grounds this compatibilist position in a new version of the regularity theory of laws, derived from David Hume's denial of necessary connections in nature.
Bernard Berofsky argues that there is room in a deterministic world for a conception of free will as self-determination including the power of genuine choice. He grounds this compatibilist position in a new version of the regularity theory of laws, derived from David Hume's denial of necessary connections in nature.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Bernard Berofsky is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He completed his PhD at Columbia University, and has held positions at the University of Michigan and Vassar College. Since 1970 he has been editor of the Journal of Philosophy. Berofsky is the author of Liberation from Self: A Theory of Personal Autonomy (Cambridge, 1995), Freedom from Necessity: The Metaphysical Basis of Responsibility (Routledge, 1987), Determinism (Princeton, 1971), and the editor of Free Will and Determinism (Harper & Row, 1966).
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction 2: Concepts of Free Will 3: Autonomy and Self-Determination 4: Source Incompatibilism 5: Conditionalist Compatibilism 6: Causal Compatibilism 7: The Consequence Argument and Determinism 8: The Unalterability of Laws and the Reductionist Strategy 9: Supervenience, Autonomy, and Physicalism 10: The Regularity Theory I: Humean Supervenience 11: The Regularity Theory II: Laws and Accidental Generalizations 12: Free Will in a Deterministic World Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
1: Introduction 2: Concepts of Free Will 3: Autonomy and Self-Determination 4: Source Incompatibilism 5: Conditionalist Compatibilism 6: Causal Compatibilism 7: The Consequence Argument and Determinism 8: The Unalterability of Laws and the Reductionist Strategy 9: Supervenience, Autonomy, and Physicalism 10: The Regularity Theory I: Humean Supervenience 11: The Regularity Theory II: Laws and Accidental Generalizations 12: Free Will in a Deterministic World Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
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