Causes, Laws, and Free Will - Why Determinism Doesn''t Matter

Zusatztext A detailed and rigorous inquiry into the classic free will debate. Informationen zum Autor Kadri Vihvelin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Klappentext In Causes, Laws, and Free Will, Kadri Vihvelin argues that we can have free will even if everything we do is predictable given the laws of nature and the past. The belief that determinism robs us of free will springs from mistaken beliefs about the metaphysics of causation, the nature of laws, and the logic of counterfactuals. Zusammenfassung In Causes, Laws, and Free Will, Kadri Vihvelin argues that we can have free will even if everything we do is predictable given the laws of nature and the past. The belief that determinism robs us of free will springs from mistaken beliefs about the metaphysics of causation, the nature of laws, and the logic of counterfactuals.

Product details

• Authors: Vihvelin, Kadri Vihvelin, Kadri (Associate Professor of Philosophy Vihvelin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2013
• EAN: 9780199795185
• ISBN: 978-0-19-979518-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works