Powers, time and free will / / Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro, and Andrea Roselli

• Autore: Austin Christopher J.
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 pages)
• Disciplina: 123.5
• Soggetto topico: Free will and determinism; Free will and determinism - History
• Persona (resp. second.): MarmodoroAnna <1975->; RoselliAndrea
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Contents -- Chapter 1: What´s Dynamic About Causal Powers? A Black Box! -- 1.1 The Black Box Problem -- 1.2 Telic Properties -- 1.3 The Directedness of Powers -- 1.3.1 Physical Intentionality -- 1.3.2 Identity-Fixing Relations -- 1.3.3 A Relation of Production? -- 1.4 Intrinsic Complexity and Extrinsic Dependency of Powers -- 1.5 Taking Stock -- 1.6 Tu Quoque, but for a Reason -- 1.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Toppling the Pyramids: Physics Without Physical State Monism -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Bricks Without Straw -- 2.2.1 Microphysicalism and Priority Monism -- 2.2.2 Physical State Monism -- 2.3 The Role of Boundary Conditions in Physics -- 2.3.1 A Question of Scale -- 2.3.2 Quantum Mechanics of a Particle in a Box -- 2.3.3 The Arrow of Time in Electromagnetism -- 2.4 The Role of Representations in Physics -- 2.4.1 A Question of Context -- 2.4.2 Representing Phase Transitions -- 2.4.3 Representing Chemical Forces -- 2.5 Saving the Macroscopic -- 2.5.1 Quantum Entanglement and Reductionism -- 2.5.2 Quantum Darwinism and Weak Emergence -- 2.5.3 Causal Closure and Strong Emergence -- 2.6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Dispositional Essentialism in the Eternalist Block -- 3.1 Temporal Dynamism in the Metaphysics of Time -- 3.2 The Incompatibility Argument -- 3.3 The Argument Is Either Trivial or False -- References -- Chapter 4: A Dynamic B Theory of Time -- 4.1 Free Will and Causal Powers -- 4.2 Does Free Will Require the a Theory of Time? -- 4.3 The Challenges of Logical Fatalism and the Unreality of Change -- 4.4 A Formal Model of Dynamic B Theory -- 4.5 McTaggart´s Challenge to the a Theory Applied to Dynamic B Theory -- 4.6 Moving from the Dynamic B Theory to the Intermediate Theory -- 4.7 Problems for Aristotelian A Theory -- 4.8 Conclusion -- References. ; Chapter 5: Libertarian Freedom in an Eternalist World? -- 5.1 Eternalism and Libertarianism -- 5.2 Alternative Possibilities and Fixity -- 5.3 Causation and Change -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: The Temporal Structure of Agency -- 6.1 Introduction: Agency and Temporality -- 6.2 The Problem of Alienated or Disappearing Agents -- 6.2.1 Velleman -- 6.2.2 Hornsby -- 6.2.3 Lavin -- 6.3 The Time of an Action -- References -- Chapter 7: Freedom of the Will and Rational Abilities -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Which Abilities and How to Understand Them -- 7.3 List on Free Will and Agential Possibility -- 7.4 Bringing in Abilities -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Power to Will Freely: How to Re-Think About the Problem of Free Will Without Laws of Nature -- 8.1 Power Realism & -- Nomological Antirealism -- 8.1.1 The Ontological Reality of Causal Powers -- 8.1.2 Power Realism Rejects Categoricalism -- 8.1.3 Real Causation by the Mutual Manifesting Powers of Powerful Particulars -- 8.1.4 Defeasibility of Manifesting Powers -- 8.1.5 Causal Pluralism -- 8.1.6 Why Causal Powers Deliver Nomological Antirealism -- 8.1.7 Cartwright on the Laws of Nature -- 8.2 Re-Thinking the Free Will Problem -- 8.3 Indeterminisms & -- Determinisms Compatible with PRNA -- 8.3.1 Dispositional Modality Incompatibilism -- 8.3.2 Determinisms Compatible with PRNA -- 8.4 Free Will Compatible with PRNA -- 8.4.1 Two-Way Power-Free-Will -- 8.4.2 Hierarchical Model of One-Way Powers for Free Will -- 8.5 Compatibilisms and Incompatiblisms -- 8.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Laws Loosened -- 9.1 Probabilistic Laws -- 9.2 Ceteris Paribus Laws -- 9.3 Laws as Ceteris Paribus All the Way Down? -- 9.4 Laws as World-Constrainers vs Laws as World-Dictators -- References -- Chapter 10: The Problem of Radical Freedom -- 10.1 Introduction. ; 10.2 Humean and Non-Humean Conceptions of Laws -- 10.3 The Non-Humean Conception of Laws and the Consequence Argument -- 10.4 The Humean and the Consequence Argument -- 10.5 The Problem of Radical Freedom -- References -- Chapter 11: How the Libet Tradition Can Contribute to Understanding Human Action Rather than Free Will -- 11.1 The Logic of the Classic Libet Experiment -- 11.2 Types of Actions -- 11.2.1 The Content of LAs -- 11.2.2 The Habituality of LAs -- 11.2.3 LAs as Bodily Movements -- 11.3 LAs and the (Causal) Role of Conscious Mental States -- 11.4 LAs and the Causal Role of the RP -- 11.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: The Consequence Argument and an Ontology of Dispositions -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Three Notions of Freedom and Van Inwagen´s Consequence Argument -- 12.3 The Deterministic Horn and the Humean Compatibilist Solution -- 12.4 The Indeterministic Horn -- 12.5 The First Way Out of the Dilemma -- 12.6 The Second Way Out of the Dilemma: Freedom2 as a Presupposition of Scientific Activity -- 12.7 A Third Way Out of the Consequence Argument: Kant´s Transcendental Viewpoint -- 12.8 Why Van Inwagen´s Argument Needs an Ontic Form of Determinism -- 12.8.1 Syntactic Approach -- 12.8.2 Epistemic Approach -- 12.8.3 Ontic Approach -- 12.9 Free Will and the Problem of the Existence of Laws of Nature -- 12.10 The Problems of the Humean Conception of Laws -- 12.11 The Antireductionist Conception of Laws -- 12.12 Properties, Capacities and Human Capabilities -- References -- Chapter 13: Super-Humeanism and Mental Causation -- 13.1 (Super-)Humeanism, Laws and Free Will -- 13.2 The Problem of Mental Causation -- 13.3 Difference Making -- 13.4 Mental Causation and the Humean View of Causation -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Powers, time and free will
• ISBN: 3-030-92486-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910556890003321
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• Serie: Synthese Library