Free will / Joseph Keim Campbell.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2011.Description: viii, 128 pages ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780745646671
- BJ 1461 .C36 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Using a range of engaging examples, the book introduces the problems, arguments, and theories surrounding free will. Beginning with a discussion of fatalism, foreknowledge, and causal determinism, the book goes on to focus on the metaphysics of moral responsibility, free will skepticism, and skepticism about moral responsibility. Campbell shows that no matter how we look at it, free will is problematic. Thankfully there are a plethora of solutions on offer and the best of these are considered in full in the final chapter on contemporary theories of free will. This chapter includes a rigorous account of libertarianism and compatibilism as well as more nuanced views like revisionism and naturalism"--Back cover.
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