A major goal for compatibilists is to avoid the luck problem and to
include all the facts from neuroscience and natural science in general
which purportedly show that the brain works in a law-governed and
causal way like any other part of nature. Libertarians, for their
part, want to avoid the manipulation argument and demonstrate that
very common and deep seated convictions about freedom and
responsibility are true: it can really be fundamentally up to us as
agents to determine that the future should be either A or B. This book
presents a theory of free will which integrates the main motivations
of compatibilists and libertarians, while at the same time avoiding
their problems. The so-called event-causal libertarianism is the
libertarian account closest to compatibilitsm, as it claims there is
indeterminism in the mind of an agent. The charge of compatibilists,
however, is that this position is impaired by the problem of luck.
This book is unique in arguing that free will in a strong sense of the
term does not require indeterminism in the brain, only indeterminism
somewhere in the world which there plausibly is.
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ISBN
9783110474466
Publisert
2016
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Vendor
De Gruyter
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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