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Free Will's Value

Author : John Lemos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003376095
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Free Will's Value written by John Lemos and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values. In the first part of the book, the author argues that possession of libertarian free will is necessary for deserved praise and blame and reward and punishment. He contends that his version of libertarian free will-the indeterministic weightings view- is coherent and can fit with a scientific, naturalistic understanding of human nature. However, the author also notes that we don't have sufficient evidentiary grounds to believe that human beings have this kind of free will. Despite this, he argues there are sufficiently strong value-based/axiological reasons to believe we have such free will and to live an act as if we have it. In the second part of the book, the author makes the case that the belief in such libertarian, desert-grounding free will is very important to defending human dignity in the context of criminal justice, making sense of justified pride and its value, and adding value to our relationships. Free Will's Value will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, action theory, ethics, and the philosophy of law"--

Free Will’s Value

Author : John Lemos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000874168
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Free Will’s Value written by John Lemos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values. In the first part of the book, the author argues that possession of libertarian free will is necessary for deserved praise and blame and reward and punishment. He contends that his version of libertarian free will – the indeterministic weightings view – is coherent and can fit with a scientific, naturalistic understanding of human nature. However, the author also notes that we don’t have sufficient evidentiary grounds to believe that human beings have this kind of free will. Despite this, he argues there are sufficiently strong value-based/axiological reasons to believe we have such free will and to live and act as if we have it. In the second part of the book, the author makes the case that the belief in such libertarian, desert-grounding free will is very important to defending human dignity in the context of criminal justice, making sense of justified pride and its value, and adding value to our relationships. Free Will’s Value will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, action theory, ethics, and the philosophy of law.

Free Will and Values

Author : Robert Kane
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887061011
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Free Will and Values written by Robert Kane and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical analysis of free will and the relativity of values.

God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will

Author : Laura W. Ekstrom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197556434
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Book Synopsis God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will by : Laura W. Ekstrom

Download or read book God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will written by Laura W. Ekstrom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of us, the question of whether or not God exists is one of the most perplexing and profound questions of our lives, and numerous philosophers and theologians have debated it for centuries. Laura Ekstrom here takes a new look at the issue of God's existence by examining it against the reality of human suffering, bringing to the fore contentious presuppositions concerning agency and value at the core of the matter. When we survey the world, we observe an enormous amount of pain, including virtually unspeakable kinds of maltreatment and agony, many instances of which seem patently unfair, unearned, and pointless. This book argues that, in light of these observations, it is reasonable to conclude that God does not exist. The book unravels the extent and power of arguments from evil. Ekstrom provides a close investigation of a largely overlooked claim at the heart of major free-will-based responses to such arguments, namely that free will is worth it: sufficiently valuable to serve as the good that provides a God-justifying reason for permitting evil in the world. Through fresh examinations of traditional theodicies, Ekstrom develops an alternative line called divine intimacy theodicy, and makes an extended case for rejecting skeptical theism. The book takes up an argument from evil concerning a traditional doctrine of hell, which reveals a number of compelling issues concerning fault, agency, and blameworthiness. In response to recent work contending that the problem of evil is toothless because God is indifferent to human beings, Ekstrom defends the essential perfect moral goodness of God. She further tackles the question of whether or not it is possible to live a religious life as an agnostic or as an atheist. Through rigorous reflection, with deep respect for religious thought and experience, and with sensitivity to the range and kinds of suffering so many endure, Ekstrom firmly advances discussion of the problem of evil and paves the way for further scholarship in the philosophy of religion.

Free Will and Values

Author : Robert Kane
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438408307
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Free Will and Values written by Robert Kane and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-11-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how two topics of longstanding philosophical interest—free will and value relativism—are connected in unsuspected ways. The ancient doctrine that all values are relative provides clues needed to resolve some important philosophical problems about free will. One of these problems concerns theories that deny the compatibility of free will and determinism; it is often said that such "incompatibilist" theories involve obscure conceptions of agency and are essentially mysterious. The book answers this charge by developing—in greater detail than has ever been attempted before—an incompatibilist theory of freedom consistent with current scientific evidence, avoiding all appeals to obscure or mysterious forms of agency. This theory exploits neglected clues in the history of philosophy about free will and action, objectivity and relativism in ethics, and about the foundations of liberalism in political theory.

Libertarian Accounts of Free Will

Author : Randolph Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195306422
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Libertarian Accounts of Free Will written by Randolph Clarke and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines free will in the context of determinism on the one hand, and the notion that this choice may in fact be random and arbitrary on the other.

The Philosophy of Free Will

Author : Paul Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199875847
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Free Will written by Paul Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of free will is one of the great perennial issues of philosophy and has been discussed and debated over many centuries. The issues that arise in this sphere cover both metaphysics and morals and concern matters of central importance not only for philosophy but also for law, theology, psychology and the social sciences. What is at stake here is nothing less than our self-image as responsible moral agents who are in control of our own destiny and fate. The investigations and findings of modern science are judged by many to put skeptical pressure on this self-image and may challenge its credibility. During the past few decades the free will controversy has developed and evolved in exciting and significant ways. All the major parties involved in this debate have had to revise and amend their core positions with a view to responding to the sophisticated and searching arguments put forward by their critics and opponents. The papers collected in this volume represent the most essential and indispensable contributions to the contemporary debate. The specific topics covered include: moral luck, skepticism and naturalism, the consequence argument, alternate possibilities, libertarian metaphysics, compatibilism and reason-responsive theories, illusionism and revisionism, optimism and pessimism, and the phenomenology of agency, as well as contributions relating to neuroscience and experimental philosophy. The collection is arranged in a way that presents the topics covered in a structured and organized manner. The general aim is to provide an effective guide for students and readers who are new to the field, as well as a useful collection for those who are already familiar with the topics and contributions. The contributors include many of the leading and most distinguished figures in the field, along with a number of younger scholars who have already had an impact and produced significant work.

Living Without Free Will

Author : Derk Pereboom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521029961
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Living Without Free Will written by Derk Pereboom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible for our actions.

Four Views on Free Will

Author : John Martin Fischer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405182040
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Four Views on Free Will written by John Martin Fischer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moralresponsibility, and determinism, this text represents the mostup-to-date account of the four major positions in the free willdebate. Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposingviewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism,and revisionism The first half of the book contains each philosopher’sexplanation of his particular view; the second half allows them todirectly respond to each other’s arguments, in a lively andengaging conversation Offers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussion Forms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophyseries

Freedom and Value

Author : Ishtiyaque Haji
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402090773
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Value written by Ishtiyaque Haji and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of the sort implicated in acting freely or with free will is important to the truth of different sorts of moral judgment, such as judgments of moral responsibility and those of moral obligation. Little thought, however, has been invested into whether appraisals of good or evil presuppose free will. This important topic has not commanded the attention it deserves owing to what is perhaps a prevalent assumption that freedom leaves judgments concerning good and evil largely unaffected. The central aim of this book is to dispute this assumption by arguing for the relevance of free will to the truth of two sorts of such judgment: welfare-ranking judgments or judgments of personal well-being (when is one's life intrinsically good for the one who lives it?), and world-ranking judgments (when is a possible world intrinsically better than another?). The book also examines free will’s impact on the truth of such judgments for central issues in moral obligation and in the free will debate. This book should be of interest to those working on intrinsic value, personal well-being, moral obligation, and free will.

Free Will

Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451683472
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Free Will written by Sam Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.

Free Will

Author : D J O'Connor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349009997
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Free Will written by D J O'Connor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion and Free Will

Author : William Benett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Free Will written by William Benett and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of Free Will

Author : Robert Kane
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195399692
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Free Will written by Robert Kane and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to current work on free will and related subjects, the focus is on writings of the past 40 years, in which there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional issues about the freedom of the will in the light of new developments in the sciences, philosophy and humanistic studies.

Free Will and Luck

Author : Alfred R Mele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199705674
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Free Will and Luck written by Alfred R Mele and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mele's ultimate purpose in this book is to help readers think more clearly about free will. He identifies and makes vivid the most important conceptual obstacles to justified belief in the existence of free will and meets them head on. Mele clarifies the central issue in the philosophical debate about free will and moral responsibility, criticizes various influential contemporary theories about free will, and develops two overlapping conceptions of free will - one for readers who are convinced that free will is incompatible with determinism (incompatibilists), and the other for readers who are convinced of the opposite (compatibilists). Mele's theory offers an original perspective on an important problem and will garner the attention of anyone interested in the debate on free will.

Free Will

Author : Michael McKenna
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317220277
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Free Will written by Michael McKenna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an advanced introduction to the challenging topic of free will, this book is designed for upper-level undergraduates interested in a comprehensive first-stop into the field’s issues and debates. It is written by two of the leading participants in those debates—a compatibilist on the issue of free will and determinism (Michael McKenna) and an incompatibilist (Derk Pereboom). These two authors achieve an admirable objectivity and clarity while still illuminating the field’s complexity and key advances. Each chapter is structured to work as one week’s primary reading in a course on free will, while more advanced courses can dip into the annotated further readings, suggested at the end of each chapter. A comprehensive bibliography as well as detailed subject and author indexes are included at the back of the book.

Free Will and Constraint

Author : Jamshid Farshidi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503544591
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Free Will and Constraint written by Jamshid Farshidi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free will is an essential problem in human knowledge that investigates the relationships between all creatures, including human beings, with each other, nature, and ecosystem. The immense impacts of free will on science, law, and ethics and, as a result, on everyday life of humans are undeniable. This is the reason behind almost two centuries of intense research by well-known researchers on this historic problem in the Western world. This book, based on a constructive modeling of the problem, provides its solution and analyzes its applications in science, law, and ethics.