Fischer / Kane / Pereboom Four Views on Free Will

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8204-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Great Debates in Philosophy

Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moralresponsibility, and determinism, this text represents the mostup-to-date account of the four major positions in the free willdebate.
* * Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposingviewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism,and revisionism
* The first half of the book contains each philosopher'sexplanation of his particular view; the second half allows them todirectly respond to each other's arguments, in a lively andengaging conversation
* Offers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussion
* Forms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophyseries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, John Martin

Kane, Robert

Pereboom, Derk

Vargas, Manuel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
A Brief Introduction to Some Terms and Concepts.
1. Libertarianism ((Robert Kane).
2. Compatibilism (John Martin Fischer).
3. Hard Incompatibilism (Derk Pereboom).
4. Revisionism (Manuel Vargas).
5. Response to Fischer, Pereboom, and Vargas (Robert Kane).
6. Response to Kane, Pereboom, and Vargas (John MartinFischer).
7. Response to Kane, Fischer, and Vargas (Derk Pereboom).
8. Response to Kane, Fischer, and Pereboom (Manuel Vargas).
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

John Martin Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophyat the University of California, Riverside, where he is a holder ofa UC President's Chair. He is the author of The Metaphysics ofFree Will: An Essay on Control (Blackwell 1994);Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility(with Mark Ravizza, 1998); and My Way: Essays on MoralResponsibility (2006). He has written extensively on free will,moral responsibility, the metaphysics of death, ethics, and thephilosophy of religion.
Robert Kane is University Distinguished TeachingProfessor at the The University of Texas at Austin. He is theauthor of Free Will and Values (1985), Through the MoralMaze (1994), The Significance of Free Will (1996), AContemporary Introduction to Free Will (2005) and editor ofThe Oxford Handbook of Free Will (2002) and a collection ofreadings, Free Will (Blackwell, 2002). He is a member of theAcademy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas atAustin.
Derk Pereboom is Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Vermont, where he has been since 1985. He will jointhe Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University in 2007. Hisbook, Living Without Free Will (Cambridge University Press)appeared in 2001, and he has published articles on free will,philosophy of mind, history of modern philosophy, and philosophy ofreligion.
Manuel Vargas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of San Francisco. He has published articles on a rangeof topics, including free will and moral responsibility, practicalreason, evil, and Latin American philosophy.