Free Will
By: Laura Ekstrom
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780429500367
Subjects: Philosophy; Philosophie; PHILOSOPHY; Free Will & Determinism
Description: "In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically surveys contemporary philosophical literature and provides a novel account of the conditions for free action. Ekstrom argues that incompatibilism concerning free will and causal determinism is true and thus the right account of the nature of free action must be indeterminist in nature. She examines a variety of libertarian approaches, ultimately defending an account relying on indeterministic causation among events and appealing to agent causation only in a reducible sense. Written in an engaging style and incorporating recent scholarship, this study is critical reading for scholars and students interested in the topics of motivation, causation, responsibility, and freedom. In broadly covering the important positions of others along with its exposition of the author's own view, Free Will provides both a significant scholarly contribution and a valuable text for courses in metaphysics and action theory."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Educational Expansion as Secular Process  -- Paul Windolf; title: chapter 2 Educational Expansion and Social Background  -- Paul Windolf; title: chapter 3 The Opposition to Educational Expansion  -- Paul Windolf; title: chapter 4 Institutional and Social Differentiation in Higher Education  -- Paul Windolf; title: chapter 5 From Patronage to Meritocracy  -- Paul Windolf; title: chapter 6 Expansion in Higher Education 1960-1990  -- Paul Windolf; title: chapter 7 Cyclical Variations in Higher Education  -- Paul Windolf; title: chapter 8 Conclusions -- Paul Windolf.