Agency and Responsibility
Subtitle: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: October 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780813366241
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Topics in philosophy; Philosophy; Free Will & Determinism; Philosophy / Free Will & Determinism; Philosophy-Metaphysics; Religion; Metaphysics; Religious; Free will and determinism
First sentence: In this paper I shall define a thesis I shall call 'determinism', and argue that it is incompatible with the thesis that we are able to act otherwise than we do (i.e, is incompatible with 'free will').