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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820577503321

Autore

Nichols Shaun

Titolo

Bound : essays on free will and responsibility / / Shaun Nichols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-104009-6

0-19-880131-9

0-19-179547-X

0-19-104008-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

123.5

Soggetti

Responsibility

Ethics

Free will and determinism

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Shaun Nichols offers a naturalistic, psychological account of the origins of the problem of free will. He argues that our belief in indeterminist choice is grounded in faulty inference and therefore unjustified, goes on to suggest that there is no single answer to whether free will exists, and promotes a pragmatic approach to prescriptive issues.