Freewill and Determinism

A Study of Rival Conceptions of Man

R.L. Franklin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351786829
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

This book, first published in 1968, examines the complicated issues which surround the problem of freewill. Although it reaches a libertarian conclusion, its focus is largely on other questions. What ultimately is at stake in this debate? What difference would it make whether we had freewill or not? Why must disagreement persist, and why do philosophes each opposed conclusions with such confidence? The answers to these questions open new perspectives.

INDEX

Act of will (volition), 86–91

Action, 81–91, 95, 97, 99, 101–2, 108, 115–17, 123, 125 fn., 194 fn., 334–5

and movement, 88–9, 115–17, 123

cf. ‘Can’; Choice; Reason, human (practical)

Action-pattern, 266–71

Agent, standpoint of, 37, 38, 42, 103, 133, 139, 217;

cf. Personal language

Anscombe, G. E. M., 96, 97, 102 fn., 227

Aristotle, 238–40

Armstrong, D. M., 93–4

Attention, selective directing of, 71–9, 83, 88, 91, 103–4, 140, 143–4, 188–9, 205–7, 234–5, 304, 308, 324

Austin, J. L., 44, 118, 120, 197, 252 fn., 334–40

Autonomy, cf. Moral autonomy

Behaviourism, cf. Philosophy of Mind

Berlin, I., 31 fn.

Blame, cf. Moral responsibility

Bradley, R. D., 328 fn.

Bridgman, P. W., 237 fn.

Bullock, T. H., 268, 305

Campbell, C. A., 39–40, 108, 323–31, 335

‘Can’ (including ‘could have’), 3, 10–12, 39, 70, 116–25, 145, 192–3, 200–3, 205, 281, 324, 334–40;

‘operative “can”’, 120–3, 192, 334

Casuistry, 225–8

Causation, cause, 2, 4, 5, 7, 14–20, 51–2, 85, 91–2, 99–101, 216–20, 244, 273, 309, 344;

and determinism, 2, 15–16, 51–2, 216...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• I THE PROBLEM
• II FREEDOM AND INDETERMINISM
• III THE NATURE OF THE DEBATE 37
• IV THE SCOPE OF LIBERTARIANISM
• V FREEWILL AND PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
• VI THE RE-EMERGENCE OF THE PROBLEM
• VII PREDICTABILITY
• VIII MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND MORAL PROBLEMS
• IX DESERT AND EFFICACY
• X EXCUSES
• XI DETERMINISM AND PHENOMENOLOGY
• XII THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL EXPLANATION
• XIII DETERMINISM, SCIENCE AND MORALITY
• XIV CONCLUSION
• APPENDICES
• INDEX