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Thinking About Free Will
Peter Van Inwagen
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Description for Thinking About Free Will
hardcover. This volume brings together van Inwagen's most significant essays in this major field, addressing key topics and including two entirely new chapters. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Peter van Inwagen, author of the classic book An Essay on Free Will (1983), has established himself over the last forty years as a leading figure in the philosophical debate about the problem of free will. This volume presents eleven influential essays from throughout his career, as well as two new and previously unpublished essays, 'The Problem of Fr** W*ll' and 'Ability'. The essays include discussions of determinism, moral responsibility, 'Frankfurt counterexamples', the meaning of 'the ability to do otherwise', and the very definition of free will, as well as critiques of writings on the topic by Daniel Dennett and ... Read more
Peter van Inwagen, author of the classic book An Essay on Free Will (1983), has established himself over the last forty years as a leading figure in the philosophical debate about the problem of free will. This volume presents eleven influential essays from throughout his career, as well as two new and previously unpublished essays, 'The Problem of Fr** W*ll' and 'Ability'. The essays include discussions of determinism, moral responsibility, 'Frankfurt counterexamples', the meaning of 'the ability to do otherwise', and the very definition of free will, as well as critiques of writings on the topic by Daniel Dennett and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107166509
SKU
V9781107166509
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About Peter Van Inwagen
Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of An Essay on Free Will (1983), and his numerous other publications include Material Beings (1990), Ontology, Identity, and Modality: Essays in Metaphysics (Cambridge, 2002), The Problem of Evil (2006), and Existence: Essays in Ontology (Cambridge, 2014).
Reviews for Thinking About Free Will
'These are all superb papers. In addition to Peter van Inwagen's classic and indispensable contributions to the free will debate, Thinking about Free Will includes illuminating discussion of whether there is anything we all mean by 'free will', how we should think about the problem of free will, and whether free will remains a mystery. It is frank and fascinating.' ... Read more