On Determinism and Freedom
About this book
The most recalcitrant problem of philosophy, free will, laid out and taken beyond unsatisfactory standard solutions by Britain's foremost working philosopher. Determinism comes in many forms, some confused, some inconsistent, some incomplete. Some philosophers maintain that determinism is incompatible with true freedom. And others, that determinism is no threat to our freedom. But are these philosophers really assigning an 'unfreedom' to us and merely pretending that we are responsible for our choices and acts of love and violence?Ted Honderich argues that there are strong reasons to think both positions wrong. Developing from where his earlier work left off, he considers there is a new and more difficult problem of determinism. It too can lead to the thought that we are unfree but morally responsible. As he demonstrates, the hardest and deepest question in philosophy needs a really different answer.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 What Effects Are
- 2 Determinism and its Consequences for Us
- 3 The Will, Reasons, Determinism’s Incoherence
- 4 Is theMind Ahead of the Brain? Behind It?
- 5 Mind the Guff
- 6 Determinism True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism False, Another Problem
- 7 After Compatibilism and Incompatibilism –and Attitudinism?
- Acknowledgements
- Index
