Issues of free will and determinism, with their far-reaching practical implications, hold a central place in the history of philosophy. In this book Jordan Howard Sobel looks at the many and varied approaches to this complex problem.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 123
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781442678927 0802043267
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- B105.D47
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- S62 1998eb
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- 1 electronic text (xiii, 212 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00211248 (OCoLC)666912044 (CaOOCEL)421014
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- PREFACE 10
- 1 LOGICAL FATALISMS 18
- Che Sarà Sarà, minimal 'naive' fatalism 20
- An Idle Argument, 'It makes no difference what we do' 22
- Appendix: Other Fatalisms 60
- 2 PREDICTED CHOICES 66
- First Day 66
- Newcomb's Problem 67
- Appointments with Death 70
- Second Day 74
- Discussion of The Samarra Problem 74
- Newcomb's Problem 77
- beyond predictions 84
- caused choices 86
- Appendix 89
- John O'Hara and The Appointment 89
- Oedipus Rex and another appointment 90
- 3 FREE WILL AND VARIETIES OF DETERMINISM 92
- Forms of Determinism 99
- causal 99
- block-universe 116
- Choices, Actions, and Free Will 122
- Modes of Determinism 129
- necessary 130
- fixed-laws 131
- fixed-past 133
- Compatibilities and Incompatibilities 136
- with ancient causes 137
- without ancient causes 161
- with malleable pasts 173
- with miracles 174
- 4 NEWCOMB DĒNŬŌ, OMNISCIENCE, AND 'CHOICELESS FREEDOM' 182
- Newcomb's Problem and Rational Choice 184
- Divine Omniscience and the Past 191
- Fischer's Semi-Compatibilism 201
- Appendix: Three Arguments from Fischer for the Incompatibility of Determinism and Freedom of Choice 208
- LOOKING BACK 216
- REFERENCES 218
- INDEX 224
- A 224
- B 224
- C 224
- D 225
- E 225
- F 225
- G 225
- H 225
- I 225
- J 225
- K 225
- L 225
- M 226
- N 226
- O 226
- P 226
- Q 226
- R 226
- S 226
- T 227
- V 227
- W 227
- Z 227
