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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary Watson |
| ISBN: | 019925494X 9780199254941 |
| OCLC Number: | 248456506 |
| Notes: | Includes index. Previous ed.: 1982. |
| Description: | VI, 462 S ; 21cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction; 1. Human Freedom and the Self; 2. An Argument for Incompatibilism; 3. Free Will, Praise and Blame; 4. Freedom and Resentment; 5. Towards a Reasonable Libertarianism; 6. Are We Free to Break the Laws?; 7. Freedom and Practical Reason; 8. Alternative Possibilities and Moral Responsibility; 9. Libertarianism and Frankfurt's Attack on the Principle of Alternative Possibilities; 10. Frankfurt-Style Compatibilism; 11. The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility; 12. Freedom; 13. Agent Causation; 14. Toward a Credible Agent-Causal Account of Free Will; 15. Responsibility, Luck, and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Indeterminism; 16. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person; 17. Free Agency; 18. The Significance of Choice; 19. Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility; 20. Freedom in Belief and Desire; 21. Freedom of Will and Freedom of Action; 22. Addiction as Defect of the Will: Some Philosophical Reflections; Notes on the contributors; Selected bibliography; Index of names |
| Series Title: | Oxford readings in philosophy. |
| Responsibility: | ed. by Gary Watson. |
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<br>"Excellent anthology!"--James Coley, University of North Carolina, Greensboro<p><br>"An excellent collection."--Susan Sauve, Harvard University<p><br>"Excellent--exactly what I need for my free will course."--George B. Thomas, University of Virginia<p><br>"Outstanding and much needed."--Don Garrett, University of Utah<p><br>"An excellent collection of recent work on the ever-perplexing issues of mechanism and free will."--Lynne Rudder Baker, Middlebury College<p><br> Read more...
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