- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Philosophy
Full Description
Provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge, and accessible accompaniment to various narratives about free will 
A Companion to Free Will is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the philosophy of free will, offering an authoritative survey of perennial issues and contemporary debates within the field. Bringing together the work of a diverse team of established and younger scholars, this well-balanced volume offers innovative perspectives and fresh approaches to the classical compatibility problem, moral and legal responsibility, consciousness in free action, action theory, determinism, logical fatalism, impossibilism, and much more. 
The Companion's 30 chapters provide general coverage of the discipline as well as an in-depth exploration of both CAP (Classical Analytic Paradigm) and non-CAP perspectives on the problem of free will and the problem of determinism—raising new questions about what the free will debate is, or should be, about. Throughout the book, coverage of modern exchanges between the world's leading philosophers is complemented by incisive commentary, novel insights, and selections that examine compatibilist, libertarian, and denialist viewpoints. 
Offers a balanced presentation of conflicting theories and ongoing debates about the nature, existence, and implications of free will
Explores the role of scientific advances and empirical methods in contributing to discourses on free will and action theory
Reviews new developments in longstanding arguments between compatibilist and incompatibilist approaches to free will including those that question this way of framing the debate and critique the standard terminology
Discusses descriptive, revisionary, and pragmatic approaches for defining key concepts and addressing compatibility problems surrounding free will
Considers various issues of moral responsibility and philosophical approaches to the problem of free will in new ways
Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, A Companion to Free Will is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy, professional philosophers and theorists, and interested novices alike.
Contents
List of Contributors x
  Acknowledgments xvi
 1 Introduction, Wiley Companion to Free Will 1
 Kristin M. Mickelson, Joseph Campbell, and V. Alan White
 Part I Preliminaries 21
 2 Logical and Theological Fatalism 23
 Alicia Finch
 3 Causal Determinism 39
 V. Alan White
 4 (In)compatibilism 58
 Kristin M. Mickelson
 5 Agent Causation 84
 Leigh C. Vicens
 6 Obligation and Moral Responsibility 95
 Ishtiyaque Haji
 7 Perfect Freedom 108
 Marilyn Mccord Adams
 Part II Compatibility Problems 123
 8 The Consequence Argument and the Mind Argument 125
 Joseph Campbell and Kenji Lota
 9 Manipulation and Direct Arguments 144
 Justin A. Capes
 10 Freedom and Time Travel 157
 Ryan Wasserman
 11 Divine Freedom 169
 Brian Leftow
 12 Denialism 184
 Saul Smilansky
 13 Revisionism 204
 Manuel R. Vargas
 Part III The Science of Free Will 221
 14 How the Laws Constrain: Causation, Counterfactuals, and Free Will 223
 Kadri Vihvelin
 15 Free Will and Implicit Attitudes 241
 Neil Levy and Jessica Wright
 16 The Role of Consciousness in Free Action 256
 Philip Woodward
 17 neuroscience 278
 R.R. Waller
 18 A Defense of natural Compatibilism 294
 Florian Cova
 19 Libertarianism 314
 Mark Balaguer
 Part IV Moral Responsibility 335
 20 Children and Moral Responsibility 337
 Meghan Griffith
 21 The epistemic Condition of Moral Responsibility 355
 Philip Robichaud
 22 Forgiveness and the emotions 369
 Laura W. Ekstrom
 23 Free Will and Moral Luck 378
 Robert J. Hartman
 24 Basic Desert and the Appropriateness of Blame 393
 Kelly Mccormick
 25 Criminal Responsibility 406
 Ken Levy
 Part V The Future 415
 26 The experience of Free Agency 417
 Oisín Deery and Eddy Nahmias
 27 The Future of the Causal Quest 434
 Hannah Tierney
 28 Free Will and Reference 451
 Shaun Nichols
 29 Meaning in Life and Free Will skepticism 464
 Derk Pereboom
 30 Free Will: Looking Ahead 477
 Alfred R. Mele
 31 epilogue: Free Will Zombies 491
 V. Alan White
 Index 496


 
               
               
              


