Peter Van Inwagen

Thinking about Free Will

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together van Inwagen's most significant essays in this major field, addressing key topics and including two entirely new chapters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781107166509
• ISBN-10: 1107166500
• Artikelnr.: 48135157

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.