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Free Will

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A Philosophical Study

Free Will

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Free Will book

A Philosophical Study
ByLaura Waddell Ekstrom
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2000
eBook Published 27 September 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429500367
Pages 252
eBook ISBN 9780429500367
Subjects Humanities
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Ekstrom, L.W. (2000). Free Will: A Philosophical Study (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429500367

ABSTRACT

In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically surveys contemporary philosophical literature and provides a novel account of the conditions for free action. Ekstrom argues that incompatibilism concerning free will and causal determinism is true and thus the right account of the nature of free action must be indeterminist in nature. She examines a variety of libertarian approaches, ultimately defending an account relying on indeterministic causation among events and appealing to agent causation only in a reducible sense. Written in an engaging style and incorporating recent scholarship, this study is critical reading for scholars and students interested in the topics of motivation, causation, responsibility, and freedom. In broadly covering the important positions of others along with its exposition of the author's own view, Free Will provides both a significant scholarly contribution and a valuable text for courses in metaphysics and action theory.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter One|20 pages

The Problem of Human Freedom

chapter Two|34 pages

Arguments for Incompatibilism

chapter Three|26 pages

Compatibilist Arguments and Free Will Accounts

chapter Four|58 pages

Varieties of Libertarianism

chapter Five|42 pages

The Concept of Moral Responsibility

chapter Six|40 pages

Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities

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