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Understanding the Free-Will Controversy

by Talbott Thomas Talbott

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • 12.7 x 20.4 x 0.9 cm

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What is free will and do humans possess it? While these questions appear simple they have tied some of our greatest minds in knots over the millennia. This little book seeks to clarify for an audience of educated non-specialists some of the issues that often arise in philosophical disputes over the existence and the nature of human free will. Beyond that, it proposes a particular solution to the puzzles. Many philosophers have argued that free will is incompatible with determinism, and many have also argued that it is incompatible with indeterminism. So, is free will simply an incoherent concept? Talbott argues that the best way out of this quagmire requires that we come to appreciate why certain conditions essential to our emergence as free moral agents--conditions such as indeterminism, ignorance, and a context of ambiguity and misperception--are themselves obstacles to a fully realized freedom. For a fully realized freedom requires that, as minimally rational individuals, we have learned some important lessons for ourselves; and once these lessons have been learned, some of our freest choices may be such that we could not have chosen otherwise because so choosing would then seem to us utterly unthinkable and irrational.
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  • Author

    Talbott Thomas Talbott

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cascade Books

  • Published

    August 2022

  • Weight

    159g

  • Dimensions

    12.7 x 20.4 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781725268364

  • ISBN-10

    1725268361

  • Eden Code

    5708216

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