(Izdošanas datums: 28-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: James Clarke & Co Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780227176085)
In this first volume of Sin, Grace and Free Will, Matthew Knell embarks on a journey through centuries of Christian thought, from the Apostolic Fathers to St Augustine of Hippo. While the themes of sin, grace and free will are familiar to any Christi...Lasīt vairāk
The problem of free will is one of the oldest and most central philosophical conundrums. The contemporary debate around it has produced a range of sophisticated proposals, but shows no sign of leading to convergence. Christian Onof reviews these c...Lasīt vairāk
This volume offers a defense of Leibnizs theodicy and his infamous claim that our world is the best of all possible worlds. It considers Leibnizs rationale for optimism, examines its roots in ancient and medieval thought, and forwards a novel re...Lasīt vairāk
The book explains Fichtes position on free will and predestination, including its rationale and significance. It argues that Fichte affirms both free will and predestination and explains how he purports to do so without contradiction....Lasīt vairāk
Our worldview assumes that people are morally responsible. Our emotions, beliefs, and values assume that a person is responsible for what she thinks and does, and that this is a good thing. This book argues that this worldview is false. It provide...Lasīt vairāk
Racial injustice, at its core, is the domination of time. The racially dominated are not free to define what counts as progress, they are not free from the accumulation of past injustices, and, most importantly, they are not free from the arbitrary...Lasīt vairāk
This volume celebrates the career of John Martin Fischer. It gathers new essays by leading scholars on some of the major themes of Fischers work and includes a new piece by Fischer in which he offers a systematic reflection on and defense of the...Lasīt vairāk
An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the me...Lasīt vairāk
Destined yet unpredictable: A new science of free will reconciling determinism, irreducibility, agency, and AI through physics and computation....Lasīt vairāk
Any given society will be comprised of multiple forms of life. That is to say, people will adhere to diverse patterns of organizing and justifying how they make use of their time. One might think that for all of us, time is divided by seconds, minut...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198922339)
Consent can make actions morally permissible. But consent can be deprived of its moral force when it is given under duress. Understanding how this happens requires answering the question of which types of duress undermine consent. It is uncontroversi...Lasīt vairāk
At first blush, free will seems obvious. Every day, people have the experience of making decisions, of choosing what to do. Planning a meeting or date, steering a car, ordering from a menu, accepting or declining an offer, playing a game, making a d...Lasīt vairāk
Robert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of his views since his 1996 volume The Significance of Free Will, and provides responses to some of the lat...Lasīt vairāk
This book challenges the prevailing, though often unacknowledged, view among most practicing scientists and philosophers that human free will is incompatible with the natural causality that is the basic presupposition of modern science. That posit...Lasīt vairāk
Free will is a perennial theological and philosophical topic. As a central dogmatic locus, it is implicated in discussions around core Christian doctrines such as grace, salvation, sin, providence, evil, and predestination. This book offers a stat...Lasīt vairāk
