In This Comprehensive New Study Of Human Free Agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom Critically Surveys Contemporary Philosophical Literature And Provides A Novel Account Of The Conditions For Free Action. Ekstrom Argues That Incompatibilism Concerning Free Will And Causal Determinism Is True And Thus The Right Account Of The Nature Of Free Action Must Be Indeterminist In Nature. She Examines A Variety Of Libertarian Approaches, Ultimately Defending An Account Relying On Indeterministic Causation Among Events And Appealing To Agent Causation Only In A Reducible Sense.--jacket. The Problem Of Human Freedom -- Skepticism Regarding Free Will -- A Fundamental Source Of Difficulty -- The Significance Of Free Will -- Challenges To Free Will -- Arguments For Incompatibilism -- Alternative Possibilities -- The Compatibility Question -- Simple Arguments For Incompatibilism -- Detailed Arguments -- Compatibilist Replies -- Compatibilist Arguments And Free Will Accounts -- Positive Arguments For Compatibilism -- Incompatibilist Replies -- Compatibilist Conceptions Of Freedom -- New Directions -- Varieties Of Libertarianism -- Libertarianism And Indeterminism -- Competing Incompatibilist Accounts: T-1, A-c, And T-3 Theories -- Undefeated Authorization Of Preference -- Challenges To The Proposed Indeterminist Model Of Free Agency -- The Concept Of Moral Responsibility -- The Function Of Moral Responsibility Ascriptions -- Accounts Of Moral Responsibility -- Responsibility And Alternative Possibilities -- The Principle Of Alternative Possibilities -- The Failure Of Frankfurt-type Cases To Show The Falsity Of Pap -- Why Pap Is False -- Incompatibilism Without Pap. Laura Waddell Ekstrom. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 221-229) And Index.
Categories:
- Religion & Spirituality
- Religious Studies
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies
Publisher : Routledge
Author : Ekstrom, Laura
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :1999-12-22
Number Of Pages : 252
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0813390931
ISBN-13 : 9780813390932
Item weight : 0.86 lb
Dimensions : 0.57 in x 5.5 in x 8.5 in
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