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Shaun Nichols offers a naturalistic, psychological account of the origins of the problem of free will. He argues that our belief in indeterminist choice is grounded in faulty inference and therefore unjustified, goes on to suggest that there is no single answer to whether free will exists, and promo...

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Essays on free will and responsibility
The folk psychology of agency ;
The indeterminist intuition : source and status ;
Free will and error --
Incompatibilism : intuitive and isolated ;
Debunking arguments ;
Brute retributivism ;
After incompatibilism.
1. Verfasser:
Nichols, Shaun
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Shaun Nichols offers a naturalistic, psychological account of the origins of the problem of free will. He argues that our belief in indeterminist choice is grounded in faulty inference and therefore unjustified, goes on to suggest that there is no single answer to whether free will exists, and promotes a pragmatic approach to prescriptive issues.
Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 188 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-104009-6
0-19-880131-9
0-19-179547-X
0-19-104008-8
Schlagworte:
Responsibility.
Ethics.
Free will and determinism.
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