Free Will
Subtitle: A Philosophical Study (Focus Series)
Publisher: Westview Press; HarperCollins Publishers
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780813390932
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy; Fiction; Free Will & Determinism; Philosophy / Free Will & Determinism; Free will and determinism
First sentence: The problem of free will is one of the most subtle and fascinating of all philosophical problems.
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."--BOOK JACKET.