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An introduction to metaphysics.
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ISBN: 0521533686 0521826292 9780521533683 9780521826297 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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This book is an accessible introduction to the central themes of contemporary metaphysics. It carefully considers accounts of causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, personal identity, mental states, time, material objects, and properties, while inviting students to reflect on metaphysical problems. The philosophical questions discussed include: What makes it the case that one event causes another event? What are material objects? Given that material objects exist, do such things as properties exist? What makes it the case that a person may exist at two different times? An Introduction to Metaphysics makes these tough questions tractable by presenting the features and flaws of current attempts to answer them. Intended primarily for students taking a first class in metaphysics, this lucid and well-written text would also provide an excellent introduction for anyone interested in knowing more about this important area of philosophy.


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Questioning nineteenth-century assumptions about knowledge.
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ISBN: 1438433921 1441678905 9781441678904 1438433905 1438433913 9781438433912 9781438433905 9781438433929 9781438433912 Year: 2010 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of determinism.


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Free Will
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ISBN: 3110319535 9783110319538 9783110319163 3110319160 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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Few philosophical issues have had as long and elaborate a history as the problem of free will, which has been contested at every stage of the history of the subject. The present work practices an extensive bibliography of this elaborate literature, listing some five thousand items ranging from classical antiquity to the present.


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On the free choice of the will, On grace and free choice, and other writings
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ISBN: 9780521806558 9780521001298 9780511844720 9780511729607 051172960X 9780511726309 0511726309 9780511731068 051173106X 0521806550 0521001293 0511844727 1107209501 9781107209503 1316099105 9781316099100 1282586017 9781282586017 9786612586019 661258601X 0511727704 9780511727702 0511728654 9780511728655 0511724896 9780511724893 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The works translated here deal with two major themes in the thinking of St Augustine (354-430): free will and divine grace. On the one hand, free will enables human beings to make their own choices; on the other hand, God's grace is required for these choices to be efficacious. 'On the Free Choice of the Will', 'On Grace and Free Choice', 'On Reprimand and Grace' and 'On the Gift of Perseverance' set out Augustine's theory of human responsibility, and sketch a subtle reconciliation of will and grace. This volume is the first to bring together Augustine's early and later writings on these two themes, in a new translation by Peter King, enabling the reader to see what Augustine regarded as the crowning achievement of his work. The volume also includes a clear and accessible introduction that analyzes Augustine's key philosophical lines of thought.


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Free will as an open scientific problem
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ISBN: 1282694243 9786612694240 0262258544 9780262258548 9780262013543 0262013541 9781282694248 0262266156 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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This work presents an argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events.


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Willensfreiheit in Theologie und Neurowissenschaften : ein historisch-systematischer Wegweiser.
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ISBN: 9783534235087 Year: 2010 Publisher: Darmstadt WBG

The two fundamental problems of ethics
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ISBN: 1283582600 9786613895059 0191576263 9780191576263 9781283582605 9780191500794 0191500798 9780199297221 0199297223 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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Schopenhauer argues, in uniquely powerful prose, that self-consciousness gives the illusion of freedom and that human actions are determined, but that we rightly feel guilt because our actions issue from our essential individual character. He locates moral value in the virtues of loving kindness and voluntary justice that spring from the fundamental incentive of compassion. Morality's basis is ultimately metaphysical, resting on an intuitive identification of the self with all other striving and suffering beings. The Introduction by leading Schopenhauer scholar Christopher Janaway gives a clear summary of the argument of the essays in the context of Schopenhauer's life and works and the history of ethics in the modern period. --from publisher description


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Aristotle and determinism
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ISBN: 9789042921948 9782758400653 9042921943 2758400650 Year: 2010 Volume: *1 Publisher: Louvain-La-Neuve Paris Walpole, Ma Peeters

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In this book the most important aristotelian passages concerning the question of determinism are thoroughly reexamined: chapter 9 of de interpretatione, chapter 3 of Metaphysics's book VI, several chapters from the Ethics, as well as some texts from the aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. This is the author's main contention: "In Aristotle's view the world of social relations and of human behaviours really is always highly undetermined; but this is mainly due to the unpredictable intersections of the different causal series issuing from each agent involved, while in each of these series at least one element tends to remain constant (indeed, it is the most stable element in every situation): the personal character of the human agent and the kind of response this character offers to the new situations that constantly arise".


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Les aventures de la volonté perverse
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ISBN: 9782872991976 2872991972 Year: 2010 Volume: 28 Publisher: Bruxelles Lessius

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Avant de s'inquiéter de la variété des perversions et même de la volonté perverse, l'auteur s'interroge sur l'énigme de la volonté, sur la lente émergence de sa reconnaissance explicite. Non pour opérer une réduction historienne, morale ou psychopathologique, mais pour mieux approcher la perversion comme intensité. La perversion n'est pas une simple perturbation de la finalité supposée du désir ni seulement l'expression d'une défaillance, mais d'abord une forme d'affirmation de la volonté libre, une intensification qui affecte aussi bien le rapport au fini que celui à l'infini. Oui. la volonté perverse est révélatrice du dépassement que la liberté désire introduire dans les hasards et les nécessités de l'opinion, des lois et des sciences physiques, humaines ou théologiques ; elle est aspiration à toujours plus d'accomplissement de soi. l'impuissance à saisir le moment favorable est le coeur de la perversion : non pas avant tout une méprise d'objet. La perversion de la volonté libre est d'abord une intensité de fixation sur le bonheur voulu immédiatement et en soi, et non par égard à ce qui advient. Une réflexion qui vient à point nommé.


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The timespace of human activity
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ISBN: 9780739142684 9780739142707 0739142704 0739142682 1282495879 9781282495876 9786612495878 6612495871 9780739180679 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Lexington Books

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This book develops an original Heideggerian account of the timespace and indeterminacy of human activity while describing insights that this account provides into the nature of activity, society and history. Drawing on empirical examples, the book argues that activity timespace is a key component of social space and time, shows that interwoven timespaces form an essential infrastructure of social phenomena, offers a novel account of the existence of the past in the present, and defends the teleological character of emotional and ceremonial actions.

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