Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-277) and index
Causes, Laws, and Free Will
โ Scribed by Vihvelin, K.
- Publisher
- OUP
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 292
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Contents
1. The problem introduced
2. The problem distinguished
3. Abilities, choices, and agent causation
4. The unavoidability of metaphysics
5. Arguments for incompatibilism
6. The abilities and dispositions of our freedom
7. Laws, counterfactuals, and fixed past compatibilism
Notes
References
Index
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