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Free will : an introduction / Helen Beebee, Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester, UK.

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Beebee, Helen
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New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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xi, 191 pages ; 22 cm.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Free Will: The Basics -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.Determinism v. indeterminism -- 1.3.Determinism, indeterminism and causation -- 1.4.The Consequence Argument -- 1.5.Sourcehood and manipulation arguments -- 1.6.Conclusion -- 2.What Does Acting Freely Require? Some Compatibilist Views -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Compatibilist control and reasons-responsiveness -- 2.3.Dennett's `personal stance' -- 2.4.Reactive attitudes -- 2.5.Frankfurt's hierarchical model -- 2.6.Conclusion -- 3.Compatibilism and the Consequence Argument -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.What does `could have done otherwise' mean? -- 3.3.Dennett on the Principle of Alternate Possibilities -- 3.4.Local miracle compatibilism -- 3.5.Humean compatibilism -- 3.6.Conclusion -- 4.Compatibilism, Sourcehood, and Manipulation Arguments -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Sourcehood and manipulation -- 4.3.Pereboom's four-case argument -- 4.4.Some responses to the four-case argument -- 4.5.The zygote argument -- 4.6.Conclusion -- 5.What Does Acting Freely Require? Some Incompatibilist Views -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Indeterministic initiators -- 5.3.Leeway incompatibilism -- 5.4.Source incompatibilism -- 5.5.The problem of luck -- 5.6.Agent-causalism -- 5.7.Libertarianism -- 5.8.Pessimism -- 5.9.Conclusion -- 6.Frankfurt's Nefarious Neurosurgeon -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.The Frankfurt case -- 6.3.Frankfurt's analysis of the case -- 6.4.Incompatibilist responses to Frankfurt -- 6.5.The dilemma defence -- 6.6.The flicker defence -- 6.7.Weak source incompatibilism and weak agent-causalism -- 6.8.The W-defence -- 6.9.Could Jones really not have done otherwise? -- 6.10.Conclusion -- 7.Other Issues -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Free will and foreknowledge -- 7.3.Free will and neuroscience -- 7.4.Free will, intuitions and experimental philosophy -- 7.5.What is moral responsibility anyway? -- 7.6.Conclusion.
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ISBN
9780230232938
0230232930
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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