Puzzles for the will: fatalism, Newcomb and Samarra, determinism and omniscience
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Main Author: Sobel, Jordan Howard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press c1998
Series:Toronto studies in philosophy
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
1 - Logical Fatalisms -- - 2 - Predicted Choices -- - 3 - Free Will and Varieties of Determinism -- - 4 - Newcomb Denuo, Omniscience, and 'Choiceless Freedom' -- - Looking Back
"Issues of free will and determinism, with their far-reaching practical implications, hold a central place in the history of philosophy. In this book Jordan Howard Sobel looks at the many and varied approaches to this complex topic."--BOOK JACKET. "Sobel considers some problems for decision-making that arise if we grant the possibility that someone may be able to predict reliably what another agent will freely choose. Sobel's careful analysis lays a solid foundation for the study of free will and will interest all who are concerned with fated, determined, and predicted choices and how philosophical reflection about these can puzzle the will."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 212 p.)
ISBN:0802043267
1442678925
9780802043269
9781442678927

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