An Essay on Free Will

by Peter van Inwagen

Overview

In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, the author defends the thesis that free will is incompatible with determinism. He disputes the view that determinism is necessary for moral responsbility. Finding no good reason for accepting determinism, but believing moral responsibility to be indubitable, he concludes that determinism should be rejected.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198249245
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/20/1986
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	9.07(w) x 5.51(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Syracuse University

Editorial Reviews

"This is an important book, and no one interested in issues which touch on the free will will want to ignore it."—Ethics

"An extremely intelligent, resourceful, and rigorous book. It is filled with subtle, sophisticated, imaginative, and often ingenious argumentation. Van Inwagen systematically systematically puts his finger on the operative intuitions of incompatibilism, and he presents incompatibilism as forcefully as has ever been done."—The Philosophical Review

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