LEADER 04768nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910816520803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-26615-6 010 $a1-282-69424-3 010 $a9786612694240 010 $a0-262-25854-4 024 8 $a9786612694240 035 $a(CKB)1000000000816268 035 $a(OCoLC)646857134 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10347252 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337883 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11265492 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337883 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10308758 035 $a(PQKB)10767465 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000131003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339095 035 $a(OCoLC)471785436$z(OCoLC)646857134$z(OCoLC)663077465$z(OCoLC)748591118$z(OCoLC)816568649$z(OCoLC)961547088$z(OCoLC)962560238 035 $a(OCoLC-P)471785436 035 $a(MaCbMITP)8442 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339095 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10347252 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269424 035 $a(OCoLC)743201349 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000816268 100 $a20090324d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFree will as an open scientific problem /$fMark Balaguer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cMIT Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (213 p.) 300 $a"A Bradford book." 311 $a0-262-51724-8 311 $a0-262-01354-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Formulating the problem of free will -- The old formulation of the problem of free will -- Compatibilism and the rejection of an intermediate formulation of the problem of free will -- The final (or a new-and-improved) formulation of the problem of free will -- Some remarks on libertarianism -- Synopsis of the book -- Why the compatibilism issue and the conceptual-analysis issue are metaphysically irrelevant -- What determines whether an answer to the what-is-free-will question is correct -- Why the what-is-free-will question is irrelevant to the do-we-have-free-will -- Question, assuming the OL view is correct -- Why the what-is-free-will question is irrelevant to the do-we-have-free-will -- Question, even if the OL view isn't correct -- The which-kinds-of-freedom-do-we-have question -- The coherence question -- The moral responsibility question (and the issue of what's worth wanting) -- Generalizing the argument -- Why the compatibilism question reduces to the what-is-free-will question -- Where we stand and where we're going next -- An aside : some remarks on the what-is-free-will question, the compatibilism question, and the moral responsibility question -- The what-is-free-will question and the compatibilism question -- The moral responsibility question -- Why the libertarian question reduces to the issue of indeterminacy -- Preliminaries -- Torn decisions -- Indeterminacy -- Appropriate non-randomness -- The argument -- If our torn decisions are undetermined, then we author and control them -- The argument from token-token identity -- The argument from phenomenology -- Objections -- Why TDW-indeterminism increases or procures authorship and control -- Why this sort of L-freedom is worth wanting -- If our torn decisions are undetermined, then they are sufficiently rational to be L-free -- Plural authorship, control, and rationality non-torn decisions -- Where we stand -- Why there are no good arguments for or against determinism (or any other thesis that would establish or refute libertarianism)? -- An a priori argument for determinism (and, hence, against TDW-indeterminism) -- An a priori argument for libertarianism (and, hence, in favor of TDW-ndeterminism) -- Empirical arguments -- Arguments for universal determinism -- Arguments for macro-level determinism or virtual macro-level determinism -- Arguments for neural determinism or virtual neural determinism -- Arguments for torn-decision determinism, or for virtual torn-decision -- Determinism or against TDW-indeterminism -- The argument from Tegmark's work -- The argument from Libet's work -- Arguments from psychology -- Where we stand. 330 8 $aThis work presents an argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events. 606 $aFree will and determinism 606 $aEthics 615 0$aFree will and determinism. 615 0$aEthics. 676 $a123/.5 700 $aBalaguer$b Mark$01607434 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816520803321 996 $aFree will as an open scientific problem$94032024 997 $aUNINA