Free will & action : historical and contemporary perspectives /: historical and contemporary perspectives. ([2018])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Free will & action : historical and contemporary perspectives /: historical and contemporary perspectives. ([2018])
- Main Title:
- Free will & action : historical and contemporary perspectives
- Other Titles:
- Free will and action
- Further Information:
- Note: Filip Grgić, Davor Pećnjak, editors.
- Editors:
- Grgić, Filip, 1966-
Pećnjak, Davor - Other Names:
- Agency, Causality, and Free Will
- Contents:
- Intro; Introduction; I; II; III; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Practical Knowledge, Formal Causation and Difference-Making in Acting Intentionally; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Self-Awareness of Intentional Action and Practical Knowledge; 1.3 Practical Knowledge and the Structure of Intentional Action; 1.4 The Material Aspects of Intentional Action: A Criticism; 1.5 Practical Knowledge and the Metaphysics of Action; 1.6 Conclusion: Making a Difference by Knowing Practically; References; Chapter 2: Wide Content Explanations; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Assessing Explanations 2.3 Action-Context2.4 How Wide Content Explains Action; 2.5 General Objections to Content Explanations; 2.6 Physical Explanation; 2.7 Narrow Explanations; 2.8 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Free Deliberation; References; Chapter 4: Kane, Balaguer, Libertarianism, and Luck; 4.1 Kane's and Balaguer's Event-Causal Libertarian Theories; 4.2 Kane's Critique of Balaguer's View; 4.3 Balaguer's Response to Kane; 4.4 A Defense of Kane's View; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Narration and the Normative Theory of Freedom; 5.1 Freedom ex nihilo; 5.2 Splitting the Baby and Saving the Intuitions 5.3 Optimists and Pessimists5.4 Strawson's Strategy; 5.5 Narrative and Normativity; References; Chapter 6: The Situationist Challenge to Free Will; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Situationist Thesis; 6.3 What Does This Imply for Free Will?; 6.4 Possible Responses to the Situationist Challenge; 6.4.1 LibertarianIntro; Introduction; I; II; III; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Practical Knowledge, Formal Causation and Difference-Making in Acting Intentionally; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Self-Awareness of Intentional Action and Practical Knowledge; 1.3 Practical Knowledge and the Structure of Intentional Action; 1.4 The Material Aspects of Intentional Action: A Criticism; 1.5 Practical Knowledge and the Metaphysics of Action; 1.6 Conclusion: Making a Difference by Knowing Practically; References; Chapter 2: Wide Content Explanations; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Assessing Explanations 2.3 Action-Context2.4 How Wide Content Explains Action; 2.5 General Objections to Content Explanations; 2.6 Physical Explanation; 2.7 Narrow Explanations; 2.8 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Free Deliberation; References; Chapter 4: Kane, Balaguer, Libertarianism, and Luck; 4.1 Kane's and Balaguer's Event-Causal Libertarian Theories; 4.2 Kane's Critique of Balaguer's View; 4.3 Balaguer's Response to Kane; 4.4 A Defense of Kane's View; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Narration and the Normative Theory of Freedom; 5.1 Freedom ex nihilo; 5.2 Splitting the Baby and Saving the Intuitions 5.3 Optimists and Pessimists5.4 Strawson's Strategy; 5.5 Narrative and Normativity; References; Chapter 6: The Situationist Challenge to Free Will; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Situationist Thesis; 6.3 What Does This Imply for Free Will?; 6.4 Possible Responses to the Situationist Challenge; 6.4.1 Libertarian Paternalism ("Nudge"); 6.4.2 Education in the Situationist Literature; 6.5 A Word in Favour of Positive Liberty; References; Chapter 7: Psychopathy, Identification and Mental Time Travel; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Psychopathy; 7.3 Psychopathy, Responsibility, and Moral Judgement: An Open Debate 7.4 Identification, Mental Time Travel and "Detachment"7.5 Psychopathy and Detachment; 7.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Aristotle on Deliberation and Contingency; 8.1 Deliberation as Inquiry; 8.2 Presumption of Openness; 8.3 Contingency and Up-to-usness; 8.4 Aristotelian Capacities; 8.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: D'Holbach's Scholastic Conception of the Will; 9.1 D'Holbach's Philosophical Project; 9.2 False and True Happiness; 9.3 Choice and Determinism; 9.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 10: The Earliest Missionaries of 'Quantum Free Will': A Socio-Historical Analysis 10.1 Introduction10.2 Setting the Stage: The Missionaries; 10.3 The Vindicators: Religious Motives and Agendas; 10.4 The Persecutors: Ideological and Political Arena; 10.5 Conclusion; References … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Copyright Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 123/.5
Philosophy
Free will and determinism -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism
Free will and determinism
Mathematics -- History & Philosophy
Philosophy of mathematics
Philosophy of nature
Philosophy -- Reference
Philosophy
Conference papers and proceedings
Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319992952
3319992953 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783319992945
3319992945 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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