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Autore |
Sobel Jordan Howard |
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Puzzles for the will : fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, determinism and omniscience / / Jordan Howard Sobel |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998 |
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©1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-02846-4 |
9786612028465 |
1-4426-7892-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Collana |
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Toronto Studies in Philosophy |
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Soggetti |
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Free will and determinism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- 1. LOGICAL FATALISMS -- 2. PREDICTED CHOICES -- 3. FREE WILL AND VARIETIES OF DETERMINISM -- 4. NEWCOMB DĒNŬŌ, OMNISCIENCE, AND 'CHOICELESS FREEDOM' -- LOOKING BACK -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Issues of free will and determinism, with their far-reaching practical implications, hold a central place in the history of philosophy. In this book Jordan Howard Sobel looks at the many and varied approaches to this complex topic.The arguments analysed fall into two main groups: those from within the literature of fatalism or logical determinism, claiming that free will is impossible, and those from the field of causal determinism, granting that free will is logically possible but showing that we lack free will owing to certain contingent facts about the world. Sobel considers some problems for decision-making that arise if we grant the possibility that someone may be able to predict reliably what another agent will freely choose. Sobel's careful analysis lays a solid foundation for the study of free will and will interest all who are concerned with fated, determined, and predicted choices and how philosophical reflection about these can puzzle the will. |
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