Free will & action : historical and contemporary perspectives /: historical and contemporary perspectives. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• 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 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
• 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.; Note: Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 19, 2018).
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