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The Academic Compromise On Free Will In Nineteenth Century American Philosophy
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Download or read book Psychology written by R. W. Rieber and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology: Theoretical-Historical Perspectives offers analysis, provided by different contributors, of the theoretical traditions in psychology. The compilation provides articles that discuss topics on the influences in the development of American psychology; the development of the concept of the self in psychology; the groundwork for psychology before the Civil War; and the influence of Darwin's evolutionary theories on psychology. Psychologists and students will find the book invaluable.
Book Synopsis American Philosophy Before Pragmatism by : Russell B. Goodman
Download or read book American Philosophy Before Pragmatism written by Russell B. Goodman and published by Oxford History of Philosophy. This book was released on 2015 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell B. Goodman tells the story of the development of philosophy in America from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century. The key figures in this story, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the writers of The Federalist, and the romantics (or 'transcendentalists') Emerson and Thoreau, were not professors but men of the world, whose deep formative influence on American thought brought philosophy together with religion, politics, and literature. Goodman considers their work in relation to the philosophers and other thinkers they found important: the deism of John Toland and Matthew Tindal, the moral sense theories of Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and David Hume, the political and religious philosophy of John Locke, the romanticism of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant. Goodman discusses Edwards's condemnation and Franklin's acceptance of deism, argues that Jefferson was an Epicurean in his metaphysical views
Book Synopsis The Roots of American Psychology by : Robert W. Rieber
Download or read book The Roots of American Psychology written by Robert W. Rieber and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by : Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Download or read book An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will written by Albert Taylor Bledsoe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following book is the author's examination of Jonathan Edwards' work, often referred to as 'The Freedom of Will'. It was first published in 1754 and examines the nature and the status of humanity's will. The book takes the classic Calvinist viewpoint on total depravity of the will and the need of humanity for God's grace in salvation. Here, the author, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, an Episcopal priest, disputes Edwards' thesis, which in his own words is said to be "founded in error and delusion".
Book Synopsis Of Liberty and Necessity by : James A. Harris
Download or read book Of Liberty and Necessity written by James A. Harris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Of Liberty and Necessity James A. Harris presents the first comprehensive account of the free will problem in eighteenth-century British philosophy. Harris proposes new interpretations of the positions of familiar figures such as Locke, Hume, Edwards, and Reid. He also gives careful attention to writers such as William King, Samuel Clarke, Anthony Collins, Lord Kames, James Beattie, David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, and Dugald Stewart, who, while well-known in the eighteenth century, have since been largely ignored by historians of philosophy. Through detailed textual analysis, and by making precise use of a variety of different contexts, Harris elucidates the contribution that each of these writers makes to the eighteenth-century discussion of the will and its freedom. In this period, the question of the nature of human freedom is posed principally in terms of the influence of motives upon the will. On one side of the debate are those who believe that we are free in our choices. A motive, these philosophers believe, constitutes a reason to act in a particular way, but it is up to us which motive we act upon. On the other side of the debate are those who believe that, on the contrary, there is no such thing as freedom of choice. According to these philosophers, one motive is always intrinsically stronger than the rest and so is the one that must determine choice. Several important issues are raised as this disagreement is explored and developed, including the nature of motives, the value of 'indifference' to the will's freedom, the distinction between 'moral' and 'physical' necessity, the relation between the will and the understanding, and the internal coherence of the concept of freedom of will. One of Harris's primary objectives is to place this debate in the context of the eighteenth-century concern with replicating in the mental sphere what Newton had achieved in the philosophy of nature. All of the philosophers discussed in Of Liberty and Necessity conceive of themselves as 'experimental' reasoners, and, when examining the will, focus primarily upon what experience reveals about the influence of motives upon choice. The nature and significance of introspection is therefore at the very centre of the free will problem in this period, as is the question of what can legitimately be inferred from observable regularities in human behaviour.
Book Synopsis Four Views on Free Will by : John Martin Fischer
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 2007-09-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moral responsibility, and determinism, this text represents the most up-to-date account of the four major positions in the free will debate. Four serious and well-known philosophers explore the opposing viewpoints of libertarianism, compatibilism, hard incompatibilism, and revisionism The first half of the book contains each philosopher’s explanation of his particular view; the second half allows them to directly respond to each other’s arguments, in a lively and engaging conversation Offers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussion Forms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophy series
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases
Book Synopsis William James, Public Philosopher by : George Cotkin
Download or read book William James, Public Philosopher written by George Cotkin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994-01-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cotkin provides a gracefully written and consistently intelligent defense of James and pragmatism that deserves a wide audience among intellectual historians and their students."--Robert C. Bannister, American Historical Review.
Book Synopsis Four Views on Free Will by : John Martin Fischer
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
Book Synopsis Dissertations in Philosophy Accepted at American Universities, 1861-1975 by : Thomas C. Bechtle
Download or read book Dissertations in Philosophy Accepted at American Universities, 1861-1975 written by Thomas C. Bechtle and published by New York : Garland Pub.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in American Legal Thought by : Thomas Andrew Green
Download or read book Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in American Legal Thought written by Thomas Andrew Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first full-length study of twentieth-century American legal academics wrestling with the problem of free will versus determinism in the context of criminal responsibility, this book deals with one of the most fundamental problems in criminal law. Thomas Andrew Green chronicles legal academic ideas from the Progressive Era critiques of free will-based (and generally retributive) theories of criminal responsibility to the midcentury acceptance of the idea of free will as necessary to a criminal law conceived of in practical moral-legal terms that need not accord with scientific fact to the late-in-century insistence on the compatibility of scientific determinism with moral and legal responsibility and with a modern version of the retributivism that the Progressives had attacked. Foregrounding scholars' language and ideas, Green invites readers to participate in reconstructing an aspect of the past that is central to attempts to work out bases for moral judgment, legal blame, and criminal punishment.
Book Synopsis A Review of Edwards's "Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will" by : Henry Philip Tappan
Download or read book A Review of Edwards's "Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will" written by Henry Philip Tappan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one can surmise from the title, the following book discusses a work entitled 'Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will', which was written by Jonathan Edwards. It examines the nature and the status of humanity's will. The book takes the classic Calvinist viewpoint on total depravity of the will and the need of humanity for God's grace in salvation. Although written long before the modern introduction and debate over Open Theism, Edwards' work addresses many of the concerns that have been raised today over this view. As for the author of this book himself, Henry Philip Tappan, he was an American philosopher, educator and academic administrator, and pioneer in the transformation of American university curricula. He was instrumental in fashioning the University of Michigan as a prototype for American research universities.
Book Synopsis Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870–1910 by : Roger Smith
Download or read book Free Will and the Human Sciences in Britain, 1870–1910 written by Roger Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith takes an in-depth look at the question of free will through the prism of different disciplines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis Fichte on Free Will and Predestination by : Kienhow Goh
Download or read book Fichte on Free Will and Predestination written by Kienhow Goh and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book explains Fichte's position on free will and predestination, including its rationale and significance. It argues that Fichte affirms both free will and predestination and explains how he purports to do so without contradiction. The book presents Fichte's position as a form of compatibilism that has not yet been explored in the literature. Due to early rationalist convictions, Fichte is as much concerned with reconciling freedom with a logical and a theological determinism as he is with a causal determinism. He sees in Kant's novel concept of a pure practical reason a new form of rationalism, one consisting of a system of moral rather than natural necessitating grounds. At the same time, he adopts a more radically libertarian stance on free will than Kant. Every member in a sequence of free actions is a "first and absolute member" and could be other than it is given the same antecedent natural events and natural laws. The interest of Fichte as a theorist of freedom lies in how he brings together freedom and predetermination in a way that challenges our assumption about their mutual exclusivity. The book provides an overview of Fichte's philosophical system-the so-called "Doctrine of Science"-from 1793-1800 with the aim of contextualizing his theory of free agency and destiny. In doing so, it sheds light on how consideration of these issues in turn shapes the system. Fichte on Free Will and Predestination will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Fichte's philosophy, the history of modern philosophy, German Idealism, and the history of the philosophical issue of free will"--
Book Synopsis Metaphilosophy and Free Will by : Richard Double
Download or read book Metaphilosophy and Free Will written by Richard Double and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is debate over the free will problem so intractable? In this broad and stimulating look at the philosophical enterprise, Richard Double uses the free will controversy to build on the subjectivist conclusion he developed in The Non-Reality of Free Will (OUP 1991). Double argues that various views about free will--e.g., compatibilism, incompatibilism, and even subjectivism--are compelling if, and only if, we adopt supporting metaphilosophical views. Because metaphilosophical considerations are not provable, we cannot show any free will theory to be most reasonable. Metaphilosophy and Free Will deconstructs the free will problem and, by example, challenges philosophers in other areas to show how their philosophical argumentation can succeed.
Download or read book Free Will written by Nicholaus Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few philosophical issues have had as long and elaborate a history as the problem of free will, which has been contested at every stage of the history of the subject. The present work practices an extensive bibliography of this elaborate literature, listing some five thousand items ranging from classical antiquity to the present.
Author :Gunther Siegmund Stent Publisher :American Philosophical Society ISBN 13 :9780871699268 Total Pages :314 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (992 download)
Book Synopsis Paradoxes of Free Will by : Gunther Siegmund Stent
Download or read book Paradoxes of Free Will written by Gunther Siegmund Stent and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep problems often leads to irresolvable inconsistencies and contradictions. In this 2002 J.F. Lewis Award-winning monograph, Gunther Stent traces the origins and development of the paradoxes of free will in this well-crafted introduction to philosophical debates regarding freedom of will. Free will poses one of the oldest and most vexatious philosophical problems, dating back to the beginnings of moral philosophy in ancient Greece. Pure theoretical reason implies that our actions are determined, while practical theoretical reason tells us that our will is free. Stent examines the arguments of moral responsibility versus determinism, from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Immanuel Kant, Niels Bohr, and Max Planck.
