The Oxford handbook of free will / edited by Robert Kane.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 638 pages) : illustrations

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Series
Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]
Summary note
This is a comprehensive reference work that provides an exhaustive guide to scholarship on the perennial problem of free will.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
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English
Contents
  • Introduction : The contours of contemporary free will debates / Robert Kane
  • Recent work on divine foreknowledge and free will / Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
  • Fatalism / Mark Bernstein
  • Quantum physics, consciousness, and free will / David Hodgson
  • Chaos, indeterminism, and free will / Robert C. Bishop
  • A master argument for incompatibilism? / Tomis Kapitan
  • Free will remains a mystery / Peter van Inwagen
  • Ifs, cans, and free will : the issues / Bernard Berofsky
  • Compatibilist views of freedom and responsibility / Ishtiyaque Haji
  • Pessimists, Pollyannas, and the new compatibilism / Paul Russell
  • Who's afraid of determinism? Rethinking causes and possibilities / Christopher Taylor ; Daniel Dennett
  • Frankfurt-type examples and semi-compatibilism / John Martin Fischer
  • Libertarianism and Frankfurt-style cases / Laura Waddell Ekstrom
  • Responsibility and Frankfurt-type examples / David Widerker
  • Libertarian views : dualist and agent-causal theories / Timothy O'Connor
  • Libertarian views : critical survey of noncausal and event-causal accounts of free agency / Randolph Clarke
  • Reasons explanations of action : causalist versus noncausalist accounts / Carl Ginet
  • Some neglected pathways in the free will labyrinth / Robert Kane
  • The bounds of freedom / Galen Strawson
  • Determinism as true, compatibilism and incompatibilism as false, and the real problem / Ted Honderich
  • Living without free will : the case for hard incompatibilism / Derk Pereboom
  • Free will, fundamental dualism, and the centrality of illusion / Saul Smilansky
  • Metaethics, metaphilosophy, and free will subjectivism / Richard Double
  • Autonomy, self-control, and weakness of will / Alfred R. Mele
  • Do we have free will? / Benjamin Libet
  • Neurophilosophy of free will / Henrik Walter.
Other title(s)
Free will
ISBN
  • 9780199995462
  • 019999546X
LCCN
00052872
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