Free Will & Determinism

Every individual, from the most profound thinker to the casual observer, is composed of atoms - approximately 6.71 10^27 of them. These aren t just any atoms ... they re the same ones that construct galaxies, stars, and the vast expanse of the universe...

The subject of this book is the controversy-one of the oldest in philosophy-about whether it is possible to have freedom in the face of universal causal determinism. Of course, it is crucial to consider what such freedom might mean-in particular, there...

The philosopher David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on April 26, 1711. Known for his re-thinking of causation, morality, and religion, Hume has left a lasting mark on history. James Madison, the "father" of the U.S. Constitution, drew heavily on...

A study of how reason can be influenced by wishful thinking and how it shapes a person's outlook on life as well as their behaviour.Reviews"It is invevitable that a book of this scope and ambition will be controversial...What ought not to be...

Questions relating to human freedom cannot be separated from questions relating to human consciousness. The two are intricately entwined, and neither can be understood apart from the other. There is a widespread assumption today that we can understand...

"Nicely conceived, very clearly written. . . . A high level of philosophic substance and sophistication." --David M. Mowry, SUNY at PlattsburghBook InformationISBN 9780915144785Author Clifford WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 86Imprint Hackett...

One in the series New Dialogues in Philosophy, edited by Dale Jacquette, Charles Taliaferro, a leading philosopher of religion, presents several fictional dialogues among characters with contrasting views on the existence of God. The views express the...

One in the series New Dialogues in Philosophy, edited by Dale Jacquette, Charles Taliaferro, a leading philosopher of religion, presents several fictional dialogues among characters with contrasting views on the existence of God. The views express the...

It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and is at the heart of numerous political, social, and personal concerns: Do we have free will? In this cogent and compelling book, Julian Baggini explores the concept of free...

Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis explores the critical relationship between psychoanalysis and the work of Derrida (Speech and Phenomena, Of Grammatology, and his later writing on autoimmunity, cruelty, war, and human rights) and Deleuze (A Thousand...

Freedom is the value that Hegel most greatly admired and the central organizing concept of his social philosophy. Alan Patten offers the first full-length treatment in English of Hegel's idea of freedom - his theory of what it is to be free and his...

In this book, Christopher Evan Franklin develops and defends a novel version of event-causal libertarianism. This view is a combination of libertarianism--the view that humans sometimes act freely and that those actions are the causal upshots of...

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In recent years, philosophical discussions of free will have focused largely on whether or not free will is compatible with determinism. In this challenging book, David Hodgson takes a fresh approach to the question of free will, contending that close...

Guilt is an original, closely argued examination of the opposition between guilty man and tragic man. Starting from the scientific and speculative writings of Freud and the major pioneers of psychoanalysis to whom we owe the first studies of this complex...

Schelling, Freud, and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis provides a long-overdue dialogue between two seminal thinkers, Schelling and Freud. Through a sustained reading of the sublime, mythology, the uncanny, and freedom, this book provokes...

If there is a heaven and you get there, could you still sin? If not, why not, if you're still free? If there is a hell and you end up there, why couldn't you choose to repent and get out? If not, why not, if you're still free? However esoteric these...

Existentialism has come to be identified as a critical, reactionary way of thinking, celebrating the individual, freedom, embodiment, and the limits of rationality and systematic theorizing. For the most part this assessment is true of the early and, by...

Both/And is a new interpretation of Kierkegaard's writings which attempts to make sense of a very diverse authorship by offering a comprehensive interpretation of both Kierkegaard's so-called aesthetic and his religious writings. Soren Kierkegaard...

Perhaps everything we think, feel, and do is determined, and humans--like stones or clouds--are slaves to the laws of nature. Would that be a terrible state? Philosophers who take the incompatibilist position think so, arguing that a deterministic world...

Professor Brown in this volume discusses one of the most difficult questions in metaphysics, "what is action?" His analysis proceeds along three main lines of thought: the point of view of the agent, the primacy of inanimate action, and the pervasiveness...

The author defends the thesis that free will is incompatible with determinism. He disputes the view that determinism is necessary for free will and argues that free will is necessary for moral responsibility.ReviewsThis is an important book, and no one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789525700664Author Antti P BalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 646Imprint Thelema PublicationsPublisher Thelema PublicationsWeight(grams) 934gDimensions(mm)...

This book is a model of philosophical and Heideggerian scholarship. Avoiding the extremes of abject worship and facile refutation, it moves into the heart of the later Heideggers work. Not only is Caputo faithful to the texts, but he is reflective and...

Do humans have a free choice of which actions to perform? Three recent developments of modern science can help us to answer this question. First, new investigative tools have enabled us to study the processes in our brains which accompanying our...

God Owes Us Nothing reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for their own...

In this book, Susan Wolf charts a course between incompatibilism, or the notion that freedom and responsibility require casual and metaphysical independence from the impersonal forces of nature, and compatibilism, or the notion that people are free and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010431Author Kyle FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945884818Author Helena LindFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Identity PublicationsPublisher Identity PublicationsWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment"P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper "Freedom and Resentment" is one of the most influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956694805Author Jonathan M.S. PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Ginger Prince PublicationsPublisher Ginger Prince PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501197277Author Ichiro KishimiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 147mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998280530Author Christopher ConeFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Exegetica PublishingPublisher Exegetica PublishingWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

This volume, the first part of Paul Ricoeur's ""Philosophy of the Will"", is an eidetics, carried out within carefully imposed phenomenological brackets. It seeks to deal with the essential structure of man's being in the world, and so it suspends the...

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A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877854050Author Emanuel SwedenborgFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Swedenborg FoundationPublisher Swedenborg FoundationWeight(grams)...

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In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision. Newton's physics also posed a profound challenge to our self-understanding, however, for the very...

The subject of "human free-will" versus "divine predestination" is one of the most contentious topics in classical Islamic thought. By focusing on a theme of central importance to any philosophy of religion, and to Islam in particular, this book offers a...