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John Lemos' Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism offers an up-to-date introduction to free will (and associated) debates in an engaging, dialogic format that recommends it for use by beginning students in philosophy as well as by undergraduates in intermediate courses in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and action theory.
Series: Hackett Philosophical Dialogues
Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (March 15, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603849300
ISBN-13: 978-1603849302
Product Dimensions: 14 x 14 x 21 inches
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A very good introduction to philosophic issues surrounding the idea of free will. On the surface of things most people seem to think they have free will. At least they behave as if they do. But over the last few centuries philosophers have tried to understand how we can be free, or what it means to be free, in a world that seems to make no room for the kind of freedom we seem to have.This book covers three broad views of free will, 'incompatibilism', 'compatibilism', and 'libertarianism'. Each of these comes in various flavors, and each of the flavors solves certain philosophical issues, and raises others. Lemos goes through each broad category, lays out its sub-categories, and explores the basic positive and negative outcomes of each. The last two chapters focus on the the previously discussed views in relation to science and then religion. The result is a nice survey of the modern isssues in philosophy surrounding free will. The discussion is easy to digest, non-technical, and suitable for any undergraduate (philosopher or not) or even high-school student interested in the issues.At the end of each chapter there are questions designed to nail down the chapter's concepts, and an extensive discussion of further reading on the topics pertaining to that chapter. There is no shortage of material here for further exploration.
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