Free Will: Sourcehood and its Alternatives (Continuum Studies in Philosophy (Hardcover))

Timpe, Kevin

ISBN 10: 0826496253 / ISBN 13: 9780826496256

Verlag: Continuum, 2008

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABLIING23Mar2317530002264

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• Titel: Free Will: Sourcehood and its Alternatives (Continuum Studies in Philosophy (Hardcover))
• Verlag: Continuum
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0826496253
• ISBN-13: 9780826496256
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: New

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Much contemporary scholarship on free will focuses on whether it is compatible with causal determinism. According to compatibilists, it is possible for an agent to be determined in all her choices and actions and still be free. Incompatibilists, on the other hand, think that the existence of free will is incompatible with the truth of determinism. There are two dominant general conceptions of the nature of free will. According to the first of these, free will is primarily a function of being able to do otherwise than one in fact does. On this view, free will centrally depends upon alternative possibilities. The second approach focuses instead on issues of sourcehood, holding that free will is primarily a function of an agent being the source of her actions in a particular way. This book demarcates these two different conceptions free will, explores the relationship between them, and examines how they relate to the debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists. It ultimately argues for a version of Source Incompatibilism.

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Kevin Timpe is Professor of Philosophy at Northwest
Nazarene University, USA, and former Templeton Research Fellow at St. Peter's
College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of Free Will: Sourcehood
and Its Alternatives (Continuum, 2008) and Free Will in Philosophical Theology (Continuum, forthcoming). He is
also editor of Metaphysics and God (Routledge, 2009), Arguing about
Religion (Routledge, 2009) and (with Craig Boyd) Virtues and Their Vices (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). His
recent publications have appeared in Philosophical Studies, American
Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Faith and Philosophy,
Religious Studies, and Philosophia.