A Metaphysics for Freedom

by Helen Steward

Book Overview

A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism. For determinism is threatened just as surely by the existence of powers which can be unproblematically accorded to many sorts of animals, as by the distinctively human powers on which the free will debate has tended to focus. Helen Steward suggests that a tendency to approach the question of free will...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198706464
• ISBN13: 9780198706465
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"