The Limits of Free Will
- ISBN-10
- 0190627638
- ISBN-13
- 9780190627638
- Category
- Free will and determinism
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Author
- Paul Russell
Description
This volume contains a selection of papers concerning free will and moral responsibility. Among the topics covered, as they relate to these problems, are the challenge of skepticism; moral sentiment and moral capacity; necessity and the metaphysics of causation; practical reason; free will and art; fatalism and the limits of agency; and our metaphysical attitudes of optimism and pessimism.
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