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ISBN: 1134636830 0203002385 1280334673 0203158377 9786610334674 9780203158371 9780203002384 9780415200554 0415200555 9780415200561 0415200563 1134636822 9781134636822 9781134636839 9781280334672 6610334676 Year: 1999 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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What is the place of human free will in our lives if all our actions are the result of some other cause? Does our processing unconscious beliefs or desires make us less free? Is our free will necessarily restricted if we do not choose our own beliefs? The debate between free will and its opposing doctrine, determinism, is one of the key issues in philosophy. Free Will: An historical and philosophical introduction provides a comprehensive introduction to this highly important question and examines the contributions made by sixteen of the most outstanding thinkers from the time of

Hermann Cohen's Ethics
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ISBN: 1281399949 9786611399948 904741067X 9789047410676 9789004153189 9004153187 9781281399946 9004153187 9004153195 9789004153196 6611399941 Year: 2006 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Practical Reason in Historical and Systematic Perspective
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ISBN: 9783110981339 3110981335 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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The idea that there is a distinctively practical use of reason, and correspondingly a distinctively practical form of knowledge, unites many otherwise diverse voices in the history of practical philosophy: from Aristotle to Kant, from Rousseau to Marx, from Hegel to G.E.M. Anscombe, and many others. This volume gathers works by scholars who take inspiration from these and many other historical figures in order to deepen our systematic understanding of questions raised by their work that still are, or ought to be, at the center of contemporary philosophical debate: the form and nature of practical reasoning, agential self-consciousness or practical knowledge, how knowledge of the good relates to our motivational capacity, and the shape of philosophical thinking about sound forms of living together. Accordingly, the volume is divided into three parts: action theory, meta-ethics, and political philosophy. This fusion of perspectives delivers novel possibilities not only for answering the systematic questions outlined above, but also for understanding both what unifies and distinguishes those historical voices that have sought to articulate the concept of practical reason. “This fascinating volume brings out the richness and profundity of an oft-neglected approach to understanding human agency, one that foregrounds action as itself an exercise of reason. Essays on ethics, mind, action, and political philosophy explore the history, substance, and implications of this idea, cutting across while also revealing the unity underlying various parts of philosophy that are typically treated separately.” – Eric Marcus, Auburn University


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The mechanics of divine foreknowledge and providence
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ISBN: 1501318268 9781501318269 1501305883 1623567882 9781623567880 9781623566869 162356686X 9781501305887 9781623565596 1623565596 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York

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"How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercises providence and achieves foreknowledge by ordering the times. The first part of the book defends the importance of the above questions. After characterizing the contemporary freedom-foreknowledge debate, Byerly argues that it has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism, which attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. Byerly contends, however, that bare existence of infallible divine foreknowledge cannot threaten freedom in this way; at most, the mechanics whereby this foreknowledge is achieved might so threaten human freedom. In the second part of the book, Byerly develops a model for understanding the mechanics whereby infallible foreknowledge is achieved that would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom. According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times that constitute the history of the world in primitive earlier-than relations to one another. After defending the consistency of this model of the mechanics of divine foreknowledge with creaturely libertarian freedom, the author applies it to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Die Unzulänglichkeit der Freiheitsbeweise : zu einigen Lehrstücken aus der neueren Geschichte von Philosophie und Recht.
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ISBN: 3518064193 Year: 1980 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp

Elbow room : the varieties of free will worth wanting
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ISBN: 0198247907 0198247532 Year: 1984 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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Freedom and resentment and other essays
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ISBN: 0416799507 9780416799507 Year: 1974 Publisher: London Methuen


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Seminar : Freies Handeln und Determinismus.
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ISBN: 3518078577 Year: 1978 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp

The question of free will : a holistic view
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ISBN: 069103317X 9780691033174 Year: 1994 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,


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Determinism.
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ISBN: 1400867290 0691071691 9781400867295 Year: 1971 Publisher: [Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press

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Bernard Berofsky formulates a concept of determinism in terms that will be constructive for the continuing libertarian-determinist debate. His discussion will interest those who want a deeper understanding of this metaphysical doctrine, and anyone whose fundamental concern is with the nature of human responsibility and the possible threats to it posed by determinism.Originally published in 1971.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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