Title: Freedom and responsibility
First published: 1998
Description: Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to show that we can. Hilary Bok takes a fresh approach here, as she seeks to show that the two ideas are compatible by drawing on the distinction between practical and theoretical reasoning.
Subjects: Responsibility, Free will and determinism
LC classification: BJ1461 .B64 1998