By: Ekstrom, Laura Waddell
Price: $7.50
Publisher:
Westview Press: December 1999
Seller ID: 334970
ISBN: 0813390931
Condition: Used - Very Good
In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically surveys contemporary philosophical literature and provides a novel account of the conditions for free action. Ekstrom argues that incompatibilism concerning free will and causal determinism is true and thus the right account of the nature of free action must be indeterminist in nature. She examines a variety of libertarian approaches, ultimately defending an account relying on indeterministic causation among events and appealing to agent causation only in a reducible sense. Written in an engaging style and i...
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