Free Will, Causality and the Self

by Atle Ottesen Svik and Atle Ottesen Søvik

A major goal for compatibilists is to avoid the luck problem and to include all the facts from neuroscience and natural science in general which purportedly show that the brain works in a law-governed and causal way like any other part of nature. Libertarians, for their part, want to avoid the manipulation argument and demonstrate that very common and deep seated convictions about freedom and responsibility are true: it can really be fundamentally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110611740
• ISBN13: 9783110611748
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary