Free Will 2nd edition
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Free Will 2nd edition

Sourcehood and its Alternatives

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Free Will 2nd edition

Sourcehood and its Alternatives

About this book

Contemporary
debates on free will are numerous and multifaceted. According to
compatibilists, it is possible for an agent to be determined in all her choices
and actions and still be free. Incompatibilists, on the other hand, think that
the existence of free will is incompatible with the truth of determinism. There
are also two dominant conceptions of the nature of free will. According to the
first, it is primarily a function of being able to do otherwise than one in
fact does. The second approach focuses on issues of sourcehood, holding
that free will is primarily a function of an agent being the source of her actions
in a particular way. This book guides the student through all these debates, demarcating the
different conceptions of free will, exploring the relationships between them,
and examining how they relate to the debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists.
In the process, it addresses a number of other views, including revisionism and
free will scepticism. This is the ideal introduction to the contemporary
debates for students at all levels.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781441146427
eBook ISBN
9781441171740
Edition
2
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half Title
  3. Also available from Bloomsbury
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. PART ONE Introducing the issues
  9. 1 The basics
  10. Introduction
  11. Moral responsibility
  12. Free will
  13. Choices and actions
  14. The thesis of causal determinism
  15. 2 The compatibility question
  16. Compatibilism and incompatibilism
  17. Kinds of incompatibilism and compatibilism
  18. The consequence argument
  19. 3 Revisionist accounts
  20. Moving beyond compatibilism and incompatibilism
  21. Ted Honderich
  22. Manuel Vargas
  23. The moral of the story
  24. Conclusion
  25. 4 Free will skepticism
  26. Introduction
  27. Free will affirmation
  28. Free will skepticism
  29. Evaluating free will skepticism
  30. PART TWO Alternative possibilities
  31. 5 The debate over the ability to do otherwise
  32. Introduction
  33. The core argument and alternative possibilities
  34. Compatibilism and alternative possibilities
  35. Incompatibilism and alternative possibilities
  36. 6 The dilemma defense
  37. Introduction
  38. The dilemma posed
  39. Rebutting the dilemma
  40. Compatibilist rejoinders
  41. Agential focus
  42. 7 Flickers of freedom
  43. Introduction
  44. The flicker strategy
  45. Dialectical considerations
  46. Pointing towards sourcehood
  47. PART THREE The importance of sourcehood
  48. 8 Sourcehood and compatibilism
  49. Moving from alternatives to sourcehood
  50. Two compatibilist accounts of sourcehood
  51. Manipulation arguments
  52. 9 Sourcehood, incompatibilism, and alternatives
  53. Source incompatibilism
  54. Incompatibilism without AP
  55. The relation between sourcehood and alternatives
  56. 10 Incompatibilism and luck
  57. Taking stock
  58. The luck objection
  59. The real problem with luck
  60. For further reading
  61. Notes
  62. Bibliography
  63. Index