Free WillGary Watson The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free will during the past 50 years, as well as some notable recent work. |
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... freedom ' a meaning quite different from any that it ordinarily bears . It is indeed obvious that if we are allowed to give the word ' freedom ' any meaning that we please , we can find a meaning that will reconcile it with determinism ...
... freedom ' a meaning quite different from any that it ordinarily bears . It is indeed obvious that if we are allowed to give the word ' freedom ' any meaning that we please , we can find a meaning that will reconcile it with determinism ...
Page 61
... freedom - by the identification of the will with the act — then freedom may again be conceded . But again the concession is compatible with the truth of the determinist thesis . For it would not follow from that thesis that nobody ...
... freedom - by the identification of the will with the act — then freedom may again be conceded . But again the concession is compatible with the truth of the determinist thesis . For it would not follow from that thesis that nobody ...
Page 90
... freedom of the will , although we recognize that an animal may be free to run in whatever direction it wants . Thus , having the freedom to do what one wants to do is not a sufficient condition of having a free will . It is not a ...
... freedom of the will , although we recognize that an animal may be free to run in whatever direction it wants . Thus , having the freedom to do what one wants to do is not a sufficient condition of having a free will . It is not a ...
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