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Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2005-05-06
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0486440117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrilliant and elegant in its treatment, Schopenhauer's 1839 essay on free will and determinism still remains relevant to modern readers. A useful introduction to the philosopher's work for students of philosophy or religion.
Author: John Martin Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0199311293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur Fate collects John Martin Fischer's previously published articles on the relationship between God's foreknowledge and human freedom. The book includes a substantial new introductory essay that puts all of the chapters into a cohesive framework, and presents a bold new account of God's foreknowledge of free actions in a causally indeterministic world.
Author: Peter Van Inwagen
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0198249241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the incompatibility of the concepts of free will and determinism and argues that moral responsibility needs the doctrine of free will
Author: Peter van Inwagen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-16
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1107166500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together van Inwagen's most significant essays in this major field, addressing key topics and including two entirely new chapters.
Author: John Martin Fischer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1995-10-09
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1557868573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Metaphysics of Free Will provides a through statement of the major grounds for skepticism about the reality of free will and moral responsibility. The author identifies and explains the sort of control that is associated with personhood and accountability, and shows how it is consistent with causal determinism. In so doing, out view of ourselves as morally responsible agents is protected against the disturbing changes posed by science and religion.
Author: Sam Harris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1451683405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-02
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 048611306X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVBrilliant and elegant in its treatment, Schopenhauer's 1839 essay on free will and determinism still remains relevant to modern readers. A useful introduction to the philosopher's work for students of philosophy or religion. /div
Author: Peter B. Jung
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-03-25
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1532661401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFree Will, also known as Freedom of the Will, is appraised as the one of the greatest works ever produced in America. The mid-eighteenth-century New England philosophical theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) defines the will by importing terms from John Locke. Edwards states the Arminian nature of free will, suspects the need for such free will, and finally defends Calvinist free will and objects to the Arminian one. In his argument, he chooses three British antagonists: Daniel Whitby, Thomas Chubb, and Isaac Watts. These antagonists insist that the self-determining will is necessary for us to be morally accountable. Edwards disputes their objections that God’s determination is contradictory to the liberty of the human will. He then goes to argue what kind of freedom of the will is necessary for the former and latter to be compatible. Edwards’s psychological, moral, and theological philosophy is displayed. In addition, readers can learn how our will chooses something pleasant by following the dictate of understanding, while the author demonstrates the natures of New England Arminianism and Calvinism.
Author: Peter Millican
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2002-03-14
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0191591971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading Hume on Human Understanding is a companion to the study of one of the great works of Western philosophy. David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748) has long been recognized as one of the best 'classics' for introducing students to the subject; these essays, most of them specially written for this volume, show how much more than this it is. The aims of the volume are: to provide a general overview of the Enquiry, especially for those approaching it for the first time; to set it in the context of Hume's philosophical work as a whole and establish its importance in that context: to elucidate, analyse, and assess the philosophy of the Enquiry, and clarify its interpretation; and to discuss recent developments in Hume scholarship that are relevant to the Enquiry. The eminent contributors to this volume cover a broad range of topics: meaning, induction, scepticism, belief, personal identity, causation, freedom, miracles, probability, and religious belief. These topics remain at the centre of philosophical debate today, and Hume's treatment of them in the Enquiry continues to demand attention and attract controversy.
Author: Alexander Grant
Publisher:
Published: 1874
Total Pages: 536
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