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Living without free will
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ISBN: 0521791987 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

Living without free will
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ISBN: 9780511498824 9780521791984 9780521029964 0511012500 9780511012501 0511498829 9780511046940 0511046944 9780511152863 0521791987 0511152868 1107121744 9781107121744 0521029961 0511173695 9780511173691 1280430125 9781280430121 0511325061 9780511325069 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Most people assume that, even though some degenerative or criminal behavior may be caused by influences beyond our control, ordinary human actions are not similarly generated, but rather are freely chosen, and we can be praiseworthy or blameworthy for them. A less popular and more radical claim is that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform. It is this hard determinist stance that Derk Pereboom articulates in Living Without Free Will. Pereboom argues that our best scientific theories have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform, and that because of this, we are not morally responsible for any of them. He seeks to defend the view that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible, and furthermore, that adopting this perspective would provide significant benefit for our lives.

Neurophilosophy of free will
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ISBN: 0262232146 0262512653 0262285754 1423726677 0262265036 9780262285759 9780262232142 9780262512657 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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Walter applies the methodology of neurophilosophy to one of philosophy's central challenges, the notion of free will. Neurophilosophical conclusions are based on, and consistent with, scientific knowledge about the brain and its functioning.Neuroscientists routinely investigate such classical philosophical topics as consciousness, thought, language, meaning, aesthetics, and death. According to Henrik Walter, philosophers should in turn embrace the wealth of research findings and ideas provided by neuroscience. In this book Walter applies the methodology of neurophilosophy to one of philosophy's central challenges, the notion of free will. Neurophilosophical conclusions are based on, and consistent with, scientific knowledge about the brain and its functioning.Walter's answer to whether there is free will is, It depends. The basic questions concerning free will are (1) whether we are able to choose other than we actually do, (2) whether our choices are made intelligibly, and (3) whether we are really the originators of our choices. According to Walter, freedom of will is an illusion if we mean by it that under identical conditions we would be able to do or decide otherwise, while simultaneously acting only for reasons and being the true originators of our actions. In place of this scientifically untenable strong version of free will, Walter offers what he calls natural autonomy--self-determination unaided by supernatural powers that could exist even in an entirely determined universe. Although natural autonomy can support neither our traditional concept of guilt nor certain cherished illusions about ourselves, it does not imply the abandonment of all concepts of responsibility. For we are not mere marionettes, with no influence over our thoughts or actions.

Choosing character : responsibility for virtue and vice
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ISBN: 0801438594 9780801438592 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press

A theory of freedom : from the psychology to the politics of agency
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ISBN: 0745620949 0745620930 9780745620947 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge Polity press

Facing the future : agents and choices in our indeterminist world
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ISBN: 0195138783 9780195138788 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

Ammonius and the seabattle
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ISBN: 3110168790 1306276233 3110814560 9783110814569 9783110168792 Year: 2001 Volume: Bd. 18 Publisher: Berlin New York Walter de Gruyter

Emotional reason : deliberation, motivation, and the nature of value
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ISBN: 0521801109 0521039118 0511520042 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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How can we motivate ourselves to do what we think we ought? How can we deliberate about personal values and priorities? Bennett Helm argues that standard philosophical answers to these questions presuppose a sharp distinction between cognition and conation that undermines an adequate understanding of values and their connection to motivation and deliberation. Rejecting this distinction, Helm argues that emotions are fundamental to any account of value and motivation, and he develops a detailed alternative theory both of emotions, desires and evaluative judgements and of their rational interconnections. The result is an innovative theory of practical rationality and of how we can control not only what we do but also what we value and who we are as persons.


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Rectitudo : Wahrheit und Freiheit bei Anselm von Canterbury : eine philosophische Untersuchung seines Denkansatzes
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ISBN: 3402040077 9783402040072 Year: 2001 Volume: n.F., Bd. 56 Publisher: Münster Aschendorf

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Liberty --- Truth --- Liberté --- Vérité --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Anselm, --- 1 ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS --- 111.83 --- 123 --- Free will and determinism --- -Truth --- -Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Compatibilism --- Determinism and free will --- Determinism and indeterminism --- Free agency --- Freedom and determinism --- Freedom of the will --- Indeterminism --- Liberty of the will --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- Vrijheid. Noodzakelijkheid. Indeterminisme. Determinisme --- 123 Vrijheid. Noodzakelijkheid. Indeterminisme. Determinisme --- Filosofie. Psychologie--ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS --- Metafysica: waarheid; onwaarheid --- -Christianity --- Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury --- -Filosofie. Psychologie--ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS --- 111.83 Metafysica: waarheid; onwaarheid --- 1 ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS Filosofie. Psychologie--ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS --- -Vrijheid. Noodzakelijkheid. Indeterminisme. Determinisme --- Conviction --- Liberté --- Vérité --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Anselmus, --- Anzelm, --- Anselmo, --- Anselme, --- Ansèlm, --- Anshelmus, --- Anselm --- Anselmus Cantuariensis --- Anselme d'Aoste --- Anselme de Cantorbéry --- Anselmus van Canterbury --- Anselm of Canterbury --- Anselmus --- Truth (Christian theology) --- Truth (Theology) --- Anselm, - Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, - 1033-1109

Determinism in the book of ecclesiastes
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ISBN: 1841271535 9781841271538 Year: 2001 Volume: 316 Publisher: Sheffield Sheffield academic press

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