Understanding the Free-Will Controversy: Thinking Through a Philosophical Quagmire (Cascade Companions) - Tapa dura

Talbott, Thomas

 
9781725268371: Understanding the Free-Will Controversy: Thinking Through a Philosophical Quagmire (Cascade Companions)
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ISBN 10: 172526837X ISBN 13: 9781725268371
Editorial: Cascade Books, 2022

Sinopsis

What is free will and do humans possess it? While these questions appear simple they have tied some of our greatest minds in knots over the millennia. This little book seeks to clarify for an audience of educated non-specialists some of the issues that often arise in philosophical disputes over the existence and the nature of human free will. Beyond that, it proposes a particular solution to the puzzles. Many philosophers have argued that free will is incompatible with determinism, and many have also argued that it is incompatible with indeterminism. So, is free will simply an incoherent concept? Talbott argues that the best way out of this quagmire requires that we come to appreciate why certain conditions essential to our emergence as free moral agents--conditions such as indeterminism, ignorance, and a context of ambiguity and misperception--are themselves obstacles to a fully realized freedom. For a fully realized freedom requires that, as minimally rational individuals, we have learned some important lessons for ourselves; and once these lessons have been learned, some of our freest choices may be such that we could not have chosen otherwise because so choosing would then seem to us utterly unthinkable and irrational.

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Thomas Talbott is professor emeritus of philosophy at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and the author of The Inescapable Love of God.

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Editorial
Cascade Books
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
172526837X
ISBN 13 
9781725268371
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Número de páginas
140
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