Free Will, Causality and the Self. NEU ORIGINALVERPACKT De Gruyter Ontos. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis, Band 71)

Søvik, Atle Ottesen -

ISBN 10: 311047431X / ISBN 13: 9783110474312

Published by De Gruyter Ontos, 2016

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183 S. Gebundener Pappeinband, 23 x 16 cm, neu, noch in Original-Schutzfolie eingeschweißt. Verlagstext: A major goal for compatibilists is to avoid the luck problem and to include all the facts from neuroscience and natural science in general which purportedly show that the brain works in a law-governed and causal way like any other part of nature. Libertarians, for their part, want to avoid the manipulation argument and demonstrate that very common and deep seated convictions about freedom and responsibility are true: it can really be fundamentally up to us as agents to determine that the future should be either A or B. This book presents a theory of free will which integrates the main motivations of compatibilists and libertarians, while at the same time avoiding their problems. The so-called event-causal libertarianism is the libertarian account closest to compatibilitsm, as it claims there is indeterminism in the mind of an agent. The charge of compatibilists, however, is that this position is impaired by the problem of luck. This book is unique in arguing that free will in a strong sense of the term does not require indeterminism in the brain, only indeterminism somewhere in the world which there plausibly is. Philo201601 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Free Will, Causality and the Self. NEU ORIGINALVERPACKT De Gruyter Ontos. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis, Band 71)
• Publisher: De Gruyter Ontos
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 311047431X
• ISBN 13: 9783110474312
• Binding: 8° geb. Pappeinband
• Weight: 510 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophie allgemein

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A major goal for compatibilists is to avoid the luck problem and to include all the facts from neuroscience and natural science in general which purportedly show that the brain works in a law-governed and causal way like any other part of nature. Libertarians, for their part, want to avoid the manipulation argument and demonstrate that very common and deep seated convictions about freedom and responsibility are true: it can really be fundamentally up to us as agents to determine that the future should be either A or B.

This book presents a theory of free will which integrates the main motivations of compatibilists and libertarians, while at the same time avoiding their problems. The so-called event-causal libertarianism is the libertarian account closest to compatibilitsm, as it claims there is indeterminism in the mind of an agent. The charge of compatibilists, however, is that this position is impaired by the problem of luck. This book is unique in arguing that free will in a strong sense of the term does not require indeterminism in the brain, only indeterminism somewhere in the world which there plausibly is.

About the Author

Atle Ottesen Søvik, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo, Norway.