Free will and luck
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Free will and luck
（Oxford paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 2008, c2006
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Free will and luck / Alfred R. Mele
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Free will and luck / Alfred R. Mele
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"First issued as an Oxford University Press Paperback, 2008"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mele's ultimate purpose in this book is to help readers think more clearly about free will. He identifies and makes vivid the most important conceptual obstacles to justified belief in the existence of free will and meets them head on. Mele clarifies the central issue in the philosophical debate about free will and moral responsibility, criticizes various influential contemporary theories about free will, and develops two overlapping conceptions of free will - one
for readers who are convinced that free will is incompatible with determinism (incompatibilists), and the other for readers who are convinced of the opposite (compatibilists). Mele's theory offers an original perspective on an important problem and will garner the attention of anyone interested in the
debate on free will.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Free Will and Neuroscience
- 3. Libertarianism, Luck, and Control
- 4. Frankfurt-style Cases, Luck, and Soft Libertarianism
- 5. A Daring Soft Libertarian Response to Present Luck
- 6. Compatibilism: Objections and Replies
- 7. My Compatibilist Proposal: Objections and Replies
- 8. Conclusion
- References
- Index
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