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The non-reality of free will / Richard Double.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.Description: xi, 247 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0195064976 (alk. paper)
  • 9780195064971 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 123.5 D727N
LOC classification:
  • BJ1461 .D67 1991
Contents:
The Problem of the Reality of Free Will -- Definitions of Terms -- Hierarchical Compatibilism Defended -- A Compatibilist Account of Free Will -- Two Hierarchical Accounts -- Problems for the Accounts of Frankfurt and Watson -- The First Line of Reply: Let's Distinguish between Intrusive and Non-Intrusive Controllers -- The Second Line of Reply: The Autonomy Variable Strategy -- Five Autonomy Variables -- The Autonomy Variable Account -- How the Autonomy Account Handles the Local and Global Challenges -- The Third Line of Reply: "Free Will" as an Internalistic Concept -- Does Freedom Require Morality? -- Three Arguments for the Affirmative Answer -- The Case for the Negative Answer -- Replies to the Three Arguments -- Compatibilism and Moral Responsibility -- The Content and Ascribability Issues -- Reduced Content and Consequentialist Ascribability -- Problems with Consequentialist Ascribability -- Formalist Moral Responsibility -- Free Will Unravelled -- Free Will as an Exemplar Concept -- The Normative Problem -- Four Cases to Illustrate the Normative Problem -- The Bribe Problem -- Do Causes That Incline without Compelling Reduce Free Will? -- Does Being Free Entail Feeling Free? -- Three Exemplars of Freedom -- Some Empirical Support for the Free Will Exemplars -- The Three Exemplars and the Unsettled Free Will Questions -- Meta-Compatibilism -- The Argument for Meta-Compatibilism -- Objections and Replies -- An Argument for Moral Non-Realism -- Three Theories of Moral Properties -- The Argument against Objective Moral Realism.
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 123.5 D727N (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 062344

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241) and index.

The Problem of the Reality of Free Will -- Definitions of Terms -- Hierarchical Compatibilism Defended -- A Compatibilist Account of Free Will -- Two Hierarchical Accounts -- Problems for the Accounts of Frankfurt and Watson -- The First Line of Reply: Let's Distinguish between Intrusive and Non-Intrusive Controllers -- The Second Line of Reply: The Autonomy Variable Strategy -- Five Autonomy Variables -- The Autonomy Variable Account -- How the Autonomy Account Handles the Local and Global Challenges -- The Third Line of Reply: "Free Will" as an Internalistic Concept -- Does Freedom Require Morality? -- Three Arguments for the Affirmative Answer -- The Case for the Negative Answer -- Replies to the Three Arguments -- Compatibilism and Moral Responsibility -- The Content and Ascribability Issues -- Reduced Content and Consequentialist Ascribability -- Problems with Consequentialist Ascribability -- Formalist Moral Responsibility -- Free Will Unravelled -- Free Will as an Exemplar Concept -- The Normative Problem -- Four Cases to Illustrate the Normative Problem -- The Bribe Problem -- Do Causes That Incline without Compelling Reduce Free Will? -- Does Being Free Entail Feeling Free? -- Three Exemplars of Freedom -- Some Empirical Support for the Free Will Exemplars -- The Three Exemplars and the Unsettled Free Will Questions -- Meta-Compatibilism -- The Argument for Meta-Compatibilism -- Objections and Replies -- An Argument for Moral Non-Realism -- Three Theories of Moral Properties -- The Argument against Objective Moral Realism.

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