Determinism, Free Will and Moral Responsibility

✍ Scribed by Gerald Dworkin (Ed.)

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Year: 1970
Tongue: English
Leaves: 225
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY 1

part one
WHAT IS DETERMINISM AND IS IT TRUE 11

DAVID HUME
Of Liberty and Necessity 13

C. S. PEIRCE
The Doctrine of Necessity Examined 33

ERNEST NAGEL
Determinism in History 49

part two
WHAT IS FREE WILL AND IS IT TRUE 83

THOMAS REID
Some Arguments for Free Will 85

C. A. CAMPBELL
Has the Self "Free Will"? 98

LORENZO DE VALLA
Dialogue on Free Will 111

CARL GINET
Can the Will be Caused? 119

part three
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DETERMINISM, FREE WILL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY 127

G. E. MOORE
Free Will 129

STEPHEN N. THOMAS
A Modal Muddle 141

C. D. BROAD
Determinism, Indeterminism, and Libertarianism 149

KEITH LEHRER
An Empirical Disproof of Determinism 172

J. J. C. SMART
Free Will, Praise and Blame 196

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 215

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