Title: Causes, laws, and free will : why determinism doesn't matter /
Authors: Vihvelin, Kadri.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Free will and determinism; Agent (Philosophy); Act (Philosophy); Choice (Psychology)
Abstract: This book rescues compatibilists from the familiar charge of 'quagmire of evasion' by arguing that the problem of free will and determinism is a metaphysical problem with a metaphysical solution. There is no good reason to think that determinism would rob us of the free will we think we have.
Contents: The problem introduced : would determinism rob us of free will? -- The problem distinguished : is it possible for us to have free will? Do we have free will? -- Abilities, choices, and agent causation -- The unavoidability of metaphysics : moral responsibility and ability to do otherwise -- Arguments for incompatibilism -- The abilities and dispositions of our freedom -- Laws, counterfactuals, and fixed past compatibilism.