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Puzzles for the Will: Fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, Determinism and Omniscience

Jordan Howard Sobel
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Description: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 topic.The arguments analysed fall into two main groups: those from within the literature of fatalism or logical determinism, claiming that free will is impossible, and those from the field of causal determinism, granting that free will is logically possible but showing that we lack free will owing to certain contingent facts about the world. Sobel considers some problems for decision-making that arise if we grant the possibility that someone may be able to predict reliably what another agent will freely choose. Sobel's careful analysis lays a solid foundation for the study of free will and will interest all who are concerned with fated, determined, and predicted choices and how philosophical reflection about these can puzzle the will.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Puzzles for the Will: Fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, Determinism and Omniscience. To get started finding Puzzles for the Will: Fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, Determinism and Omniscience, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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212
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University of Toronto Press
Release
2010
ISBN
1282028464

Puzzles for the Will: Fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, Determinism and Omniscience

Jordan Howard Sobel
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Description: 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 topic.The arguments analysed fall into two main groups: those from within the literature of fatalism or logical determinism, claiming that free will is impossible, and those from the field of causal determinism, granting that free will is logically possible but showing that we lack free will owing to certain contingent facts about the world. Sobel considers some problems for decision-making that arise if we grant the possibility that someone may be able to predict reliably what another agent will freely choose. Sobel's careful analysis lays a solid foundation for the study of free will and will interest all who are concerned with fated, determined, and predicted choices and how philosophical reflection about these can puzzle the will.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Puzzles for the Will: Fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, Determinism and Omniscience. To get started finding Puzzles for the Will: Fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, Determinism and Omniscience, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
212
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Release
2010
ISBN
1282028464

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