Peter van Inwagen (Indiana University of Notre Dame)

Thinking about Free Will

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

van Inwagen is a major name in the philosophy of free will, and this book, which includes several of his most significant essays alongside two new pieces, will be essential for scholars and students of metaphysics and the philosophy of action. Topics discussed include determinism and moral responsibility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781316617656
• ISBN-10: 1316617653
• Artikelnr.: 47828837

Autorenporträt

Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of An Essay on Free Will (1983), and his numerous other publications include Material Beings (1990), Ontology, Identity, and Modality: Essays in Metaphysics (Cambridge, 2002), The Problem of Evil (2006), and Existence: Essays in Ontology (Cambridge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Ability and responsibility
2. On two arguments for compatibilism
3. Compatibilistic reflections
4. Critical study of Dennett's Elbow Room
5. When is the will free?
6. Moral responsibility, determinism, and the ability to do otherwise
7. Free will remains a mystery
8. Genes, statistics, and desert
9. Freedom to break the laws
10. How to think about the problem of free will
11. A promising argument
12. Preface to the French translation of An Essay on Free Will
13. The problem of fr** w*ll
14. Ability
Index.