Freedom and Belief

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-924750-9
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

Revised edition of a landmark work in the free will debate
A controversial challenge to our understanding of ourselves
Will appeal to anyone interested in human freedom
Features a substantial additional appendix offering a concise new presentation of some of the main ideas and arguments of the book
Strawson writes in a clear and accessible style

This is a revised and updated edition of Galen Strawson's groundbreaking first book, where he argues that there is a fundamental sense in which there is no such thing as free will or true moral responsibility (as this is ordinarily understood). This conclusion is very hard to accept. On the whole we continue to believe firmly both that we have free will and that we are truly morally responsible for what we do. Strawson devotes much of the book to an attempt to explain why this is so. He examines various aspects of the 'cognitive phenomenology' of freedom - the nature, causes, and consequences of our deep commitment to belief in freedom. In particular, he considers at length a number of problems that are raised by the suggestion that, if freedom were possible, believing oneself to be a free agent would be a necessary condition of being a free agent.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strawson, Galen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION (2010)
PREFACE
1: Introduction
2: Libertarianism, Action, and Self-determination
3: Kant and Commitment
4: Commitment, Illusion, and Truth
5: Non-rational Commitment: A View of Freedom
6: Phenomenology, Commitment, and What Might Happen
7: Objectivism: Preliminaries
8: Choice
9: Self-consciousness
10: Evidence and Independence
11: Contravention and Convention
12: The Spectator Subject and Integration
13: The Natural Epictetans
14: The Experience of Ability to Choose
15: Subjectivism and Experience of Freedom
16: Antinomy and Truth
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Galen Strawson, University of Reading