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Nature's Challenge to Free Will (Hardcover, New)
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Nature's Challenge to Free Will (Hardcover, New)
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Hardly any attempt to come to grips with the classical problem of
free will and determinism directly addresses the metaphysical
vision driving the concerns of those who believe that a significant
sort of free will cannot exist in a deterministic world. According
to this vision of such a world, all events, including human
decisions and actions, take place as they must because the world is
governed by necessity. Most philosophers who believe that free will
is possible in a deterministic world ignore this root position,
often regarding it as sufficient to cite considerations about moral
responsibility, human agency, or the prerequisites for a society.
Bernard Berofsky addresses that metaphysical picture directly.
Nature's Challenge to Free Will offers an original defense of
Humean Compatibilism. A Humean Compatibilist bases the belief in
the compatibility of free will and determinism on David Hume's view
that laws do not affirm the existence of necessary connections in
nature. Berofsky offers a new formulation of Hume's position, given
that, until now, there has been no acceptable version. His
conclusion that free will is compatible with determinism is based
as well upon a defense of the existence of psychological laws as
autonomous relative to physical laws. He rejects appeals to the
unalterability of laws (as in the Consequence Argument) on the
grounds that this principle fails for psychological laws. Efforts
to bypass this result by trying to establish that all laws are
reducible to physical laws or that psychological states supervene
on physical states are shown to fail. Berofsky concludes that the
existence of free will as self-determination together with the
power of genuine choice is not threatened even if we live in a
deterministic world.
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