Determinism

✍ Scribed by Bernard Berofsky

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 1536
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Bernard Berofsky formulates a concept of determinism in terms that will be constructive for the continuing libertarian-determinist debate. His discussion will interest those who want a deeper understanding of this metaphysical doctrine, and anyone whose fundamental concern is with the nature of human responsibility and the possible threats to it posed by determinism.

Originally published in 1971.

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 Accounts of Determinism
I Foreknowledge
II Predictability
III Explanation
IV Causality
Part 2 A Definition of Determinism
V The Structure of a Definition
VI The Regularity Theory: Translatability
VII The Regularity Theory: Adequacy
VIII Deterministic Accounts
IX Determinism Defined
Part 3 The Truth of Determinism
X The Alleged Triviality of Determinism
XI Determinism and Falsification
XII Deterministic Theories and the Observable World
XIII Psychological Determinism
Index