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On Determinism and Freedom / Ted Honderich.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748618415
  • 9781474469296
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 123.5 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. What Effects Are -- Chapter Two. Determinism and its Consequences for Us -- Chapter Three. The Will, Reasons, Determinism's Incoherence -- Chapter Four. Is the Mind Ahead of the Brain? Behind It? -- Chapter Five. Mind the Guff -- Chapter Six. Determinism True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism False, Another Problem -- Chapter Seven. After Compatibilism and Incompatibilism -and Attitudinism? -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618415);The most recalcitrant problem of philosophy, free will, laid out and taken beyond unsatisfactory standard solutions by Britain's foremost working philosopher.Determinism comes in many forms, some confused, some inconsistent, some incomplete. Some philosophers maintain that determinism is incompatible with true freedom. And others, that determinism is no threat to our freedom. But are these philosophers really assigning an 'unfreedom' to us and merely pretending that we are responsible for our choices and acts of love and violence?Ted Honderich argues that there are strong reasons to think both positions wrong. Developing from where his earlier work left off, he considers there is a new and more difficult problem of determinism. It too can lead to the thought that we are unfree but morally responsible. As he demonstrates, the hardest and deepest question in philosophy needs a really different answer."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. What Effects Are -- Chapter Two. Determinism and its Consequences for Us -- Chapter Three. The Will, Reasons, Determinism's Incoherence -- Chapter Four. Is the Mind Ahead of the Brain? Behind It? -- Chapter Five. Mind the Guff -- Chapter Six. Determinism True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism False, Another Problem -- Chapter Seven. After Compatibilism and Incompatibilism -and Attitudinism? -- Acknowledgements -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618415);The most recalcitrant problem of philosophy, free will, laid out and taken beyond unsatisfactory standard solutions by Britain's foremost working philosopher.Determinism comes in many forms, some confused, some inconsistent, some incomplete. Some philosophers maintain that determinism is incompatible with true freedom. And others, that determinism is no threat to our freedom. But are these philosophers really assigning an 'unfreedom' to us and merely pretending that we are responsible for our choices and acts of love and violence?Ted Honderich argues that there are strong reasons to think both positions wrong. Developing from where his earlier work left off, he considers there is a new and more difficult problem of determinism. It too can lead to the thought that we are unfree but morally responsible. As he demonstrates, the hardest and deepest question in philosophy needs a really different answer."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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