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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484607403321

Titolo

Free Will : Historical and Analytic Perspectives / / edited by Marco Hausmann, Jörg Noller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030611361

3030611361

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

123.5

Soggetti

Metaphysics

Metaethics

Ethics

Meta-Ethics

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Free Will and Determinism -- 1. What is Determinism?; Helen Steward -- 2. Aristotle and the Discovery of Determinism; Dorothea Frede -- 3. Defending Free Will; Nicholas Rescher -- 4. Some Free Thinking about 'Thinking about Free Will'; Marco Hausmann -- 5. Local-Miracle Compatibilism: A Critique; John Martin Fischer -- 6. Backtracking Counterfactuals and Agents' Abilities; Helen Beebee -- 7. Moral Necessity, Agent Causation, and the Determination of Free Actions in Clarke and Leibniz; Julia Jorati -- Part II: Free Will and Indeterminism -- 8. Indeterministic Compatibilism; Caroline Sartorio -- 9. The Culpability Problem and the Indeterminacy of Choice; Thomas Buchheim -- 10. Ambivalent Freedom: Kant and the Problem of Willkür; Jörg Noller -- 11. Determination, Chance and David Hume: On Freedom as a Power; Thomas Pink -- Part III: Free Will and Moral Responsibility -- 12. Kant's Justification for Freedom as a Conclusion for Moral Responsibility; Claudia Blöser -- 13. Does 'Ought' imply 'Can'?; Peter van Inwagen. .

Sommario/riassunto

This novel contributed volume advances the current debate on free will



by bridging the divide between analytic and historically oriented approaches to the problem. With thirteen chapters by leading academics in the field, the volume is divided into three parts: free will and determinism, free will and indeterminism, and free will and moral responsibility. The contributors aim to initiate a philosophical discourse that profits from a combination of the two approaches. On the one hand, the analytic tools familiar from the debate – arguments, concepts, and distinctions – can be used to sharpen our understanding of classical philosophical positions. On the other hand, the rich philosophical tradition can be reconstructed so as to inspire new solutions. In recent years, the problem of free will has received special attention in the analytic arena. This is the first anthology to combine historical and analytic perspectives, significantly furthering the debate, and providing acrucial resource to academics and advanced students alike.