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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813182403321

Autore

Sobel Jordan Howard

Titolo

Puzzles for the will : fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, determinism and omniscience / / Jordan Howard Sobel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-282-02846-4

9786612028465

1-4426-7892-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

Toronto Studies in Philosophy

Disciplina

123

Soggetti

Free will and determinism

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Logical Fatalisms -- ; 2. Predicted Choices -- ; 3. Free Will and Varieties of Determinism -- ; 4. Newcomb Denuo, Omniscience, and 'Choiceless Freedom' -- Looking Back.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--Jacket