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Introduction | ||
1 | Freedom and Determinism | 3 |
1.1 | An Ancient Argument | 3 |
1.2 | Some Modal Principles and the Argument for Incompatibilism | 5 |
1.3 | The Fixity of the Past and of Natural Laws | 15 |
1.4 | Freedom and Responsibility | 18 |
2 | Freedom and Indeterminism: Some Unsatisfactory Proposals | 23 |
2.1 | The Trouble with Incompatibilism | 23 |
2.2 | Simple Indeterminism: Carl Ginet on Choice and Control | 24 |
2.3 | Causal Indeterminism: The General Strategy and a Problem Posed | 27 |
3 | The Agent as Cause: Reid Taylor, and Chisholm | 43 |
3.1 | The Agency Theory | 43 |
3.2 | Thomas Reid | 43 |
3.3 | Richard Taylor | 49 |
3.4 | Roderick Chisholm | 55 |
Appendix | Chisholm's Later Writings on Agency | 61 |
4 | The Metaphysics of Free Will | 67 |
4.1 | Overview | 67 |
4.2 | Event Causation | 68 |
4.3 | Agent Causation | 71 |
4.4 | C. D. Broad's Objection to the Very Idea of Agent Causation | 74 |
4.5 | Remarks on a Contemporary Alternative Account of Agent Causation | 76 |
4.6 | Ersatz Agent Causation? | 79 |
4.7 | Alternative Possibilities, Responsibility, and Agent Causation | 81 |
5 | Reasons and Causes | 85 |
5.1 | Reasons Explanation and the Agency Theory | 85 |
5.2 | Objections to the Account | 86 |
5.3 | Reasons and Contrastive Explanation | 91 |
5.4 | Reasons and Tendencies to Act: A Residual Problem and a Speculative Proposal | 95 |
5.5 | When Is the Will Free? | 101 |
6 | Agency, Mind, and Reductionism | 108 |
6.1 | Introductory Polemics: 'The Emerging Scientific Picture of the World' | 108 |
6.2 | Emergence | 110 |
6.3 | Emergence and Consciousness | 115 |
6.4 | The Emergence of Active Power | 121 |
6.5 | An Epistemological Objection to Agent Causation | 123 |
References | 127 | |
Index | 133 |
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