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Provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge, and accessible
accompaniment to various narratives about free will A Companion to
Free Will is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the
philosophy of free will, offering an authoritative survey of
perennial issues and contemporary debates within the field.
Bringing together the work of a diverse team of established and
younger scholars, this well-balanced volume offers innovative
perspectives and fresh approaches to the classical compatibility
problem, moral and legal responsibility, consciousness in free
action, action theory, determinism, logical fatalism,
impossibilism, and much more. The Companion’s 30 chapters provide
general coverage of the discipline as well as an in-depth
exploration of both CAP (Classical Analytic Paradigm) and non-CAP
perspectives on the problem of free will and the problem of
determinism—raising new questions about what the free will debate
is, or should be, about. Throughout the book, coverage of modern
exchanges between the world’s leading philosophers is
complemented by incisive commentary, novel insights, and selections
that examine compatibilist, libertarian, and denialist viewpoints.
Offers a balanced presentation of conflicting theories and ongoing
debates about the nature, existence, and implications of free will
Explores the role of scientific advances and empirical methods in
contributing to discourses on free will and action theory Reviews
new developments in longstanding arguments between compatibilist
and incompatibilist approaches to free will including those that
question this way of framing the debate and critique the standard
terminology Discusses descriptive, revisionary, and pragmatic
approaches for defining key concepts and addressing compatibility
problems surrounding free will Considers various issues of moral
responsibility and philosophical approaches to the problem of free
will in new ways Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to
Philosophy series, A Companion to Free Will is essential reading
for undergraduate and graduate students of philosophy, professional
philosophers and theorists, and interested novices alike.
This book addresses the problem of religious diversity for
Christian exclusivism. In contemporary philosophy of religion,
there has been heated debate about whether the diversity of
mutually exclusive religious beliefs is a good reason to give up
any form of religious exclusivism -Christian exclusivism for
instance. On the one hand, Christian exclusivists defend the truth
of Christian beliefs; on the other hand the opponents of Christian
belief base their criticism upon religious diversity and
disagreement. In this helpful work, Kim defends Christian belief
and Alvin Plantinga's version of Reformed Epistemology. The latter
is one of the most important and controversial movements in recent
epistemology of religion, which has been criticized for failing to
deal adequately with issues stemming from religious disagreement.
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Time and Identity (Paperback, New Ed)
Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, Harry S. Silverstein; Introduction by Matthew H. Slater
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Original essays on the metaphysics of time, identity, and the self,
written by distinguished scholars and important rising
philosophers. The concepts of time and identity seem at once
unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate
part of our experience-it would seem that the passage of time is a
prerequisite for having any experience at all-and yet recalcitrant
questions about time remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past
and future moments exist? Philosophers face similarly stubborn
questions about identity, particularly about the persistence of
identical entities through change. Indeed, questions about the
metaphysics of persistence take on many of the complexities
inherent in philosophical considerations of time. This volume of
original essays brings together these two essentially related
concepts in a way not reflected in the available literature, making
it required reading for philosophers working in metaphysics and
students interested in these topics. The contributors,
distinguished authors and rising scholars, first consider the
nature of time and then turn to the relation of identity, focusing
on the metaphysical connections between the two, with a special
emphasis on personal identity. The volume concludes with essays on
the metaphysics of death, issues in which time and identity play a
significant role. This groundbreaking collection offers both
cutting-edge epistemological analysis and historical perspectives
on contemporary topics. Contributors Harriet Baber, Lynne Rudder
Baker, Ben Bradley, John W. Carroll, Reinaldo Elugardo, Geoffrey
Gorham, Mark Hinchliff, Jenann Ismael, Barbara Levenbook, Andrew
Light, Lawrence B. Lombard, Ned Markosian, Harold Noonan, John
Perry, Harry S. Silverstein, Matthew H. Slater, Robert J. Stainton,
Neil A. Tognazzini
Leading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of
perspectives, including metaphysics, action theory, and philosophy
of law. Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss
the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the "free will"
problem. By contrast, these essays by leading philosophers view
responsibility from a variety of perspectives-metaphysics, ethics,
action theory, and the philosophy of law. After a broad, framing
introduction by the volume's editors, the contributors consider
such subjects as responsibility as it relates to the "free will"
problem; the relation between responsibility and knowledge or
ignorance; the relation between causal and moral responsibility;
the difference, if any, between responsibility for actions and
responsibility for omissions; the metaphysical requirements for
making sense of "collective" responsibility; and the relation
between moral and legal responsibility. The contributors include
such distinguished authors as Alfred R. Mele, John Martin Fischer,
George Sher, and Frances Kamm, as well as important rising
scholars. Taken together, the essays in Action, Ethics, and
Responsibility offer a breadth of perspectives that is unmatched by
other treatments of the topic. Contributors Joseph Keim Campbell,
David Chan, Randolph Clarke, E.J. Coffman, John Martin Fischer,
Helen Frowe, Todd Jones, Frances Kamm, Antti Kauppinen, Alfred R.
Mele, Michael O'Rourke, Paul Russell, Robert F. Schopp, George
Sher, Harry S. Silverstein, Saul Smilansky, Donald Smith, Charles
T. Wolfe
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