The limits of free will :selected essays

  • 作者: Russell, Paul,
  • 出版:
  • 稽核項: xxiv, 288 pages ;25 cm.
  • 標題: Free will and determinism.
  • ISBN: 0190627603 , 9780190627607
  • 附註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Part I. Free will and causal relations -- Sorabji and the dilemma of determinism: with an addendum, 2016 -- Causation, compulsion, and compatibilism -- Part II. Responsibility, skepticism, and moral sentiment -- Strawson's way of naturalizaing responsibility -- Responsibility and the condition of moral sense -- Moral sense and the foundations of responsibility -- Responsibility, naturalism, and "the morality system" -- Part III. Practical reason, art, and manipulation -- Practical reason and motivational skepticism -- Free will, art, and morality -- Selective hard compatibilism: manipulation and moral standing -- Part IV. Pessimism and the limits of free will -- Compatibilist-fatalism: finitude, pessimism, and the limits of free will -- Pessimists, Pollyannas, and the new compatibilism -- Free will pessimism.
  • 摘要: This volume contains a selection of papers concerning free will and moral responsibility. Among the topics covered, as they relate to these problems, are the challenge of skepticism; moral sentiment and moral capacity; necessity and the metaphysics of causation; practical reason; free will and art; fatalism and the limits of agency; and our metaphysical attitudes of optimism and pessimism.
  • 系統號: 005272166
  • 資料類型: 圖書
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