Freedom Within Reason

Zusatztext clearly written ... structured in a way which should make it readily accessible to undergraduates Klappentext This book is addressed to all those whose philosophical urge expresses itself in a concern with free will. Zusammenfassung This treatise charts a course between incompatibilism, or the notion that freedom and responsibility require causal and metaphysical independence from the forces of nature, and compatibilism, or the notion that people are free and responsible as long as their actions are governed by their desires.

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• Authors: Wolf, Susan Wolf, Susan (Professor of Philosophy Wolf, Susan R. Wolf
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1993
• EAN: 9780195085655
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508565-5
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -