Free Will: A Philosophical Reappraisal
ডিসে ২০১১ · Transaction Publishers
ই-বুক
186
পৃষ্ঠা
family_home
উপযুক্ত
info
reportরেটিং ও রিভিউ যাচাই করা হয়নি আরও জানুন
এই ই-বুকের বিষয়ে
This volume is a reassessment of free will and, as such, seeks to answer the question: Do humans ever act under the guidance of the will? To determine if humans have free will, Rescher first examines what exactly free will is and how it should function. While the literature on the subject of free will is vast, a good deal still remains to be done to avert obscurity and confusion. Rescher leads the reader through a conceptual web of distinctions that, taken together, provide a satisfying contribution to philosophical thought on free will in general. Rescher sharpens his highly conceptual assessment by making distinctions--between productive (or metaphysical) and moral (or motivational) freedom, free decision and free action, motivational and causal determination of choices, durational events and the instantaneous eventuations that mark their commencements and completions, and between pre-determination and precedence determination. In doing so, he also examines the role of nature, nurture, and free choice. Each of these distinctions defines the characteristics of free will and averts a group of problems and difficulties traditionally ascribed to the doctrine. With these in place, it becomes possible to validate the compatibility between freedom of the will and a certain special mode of determinism. Rescher's conceptual perspective in this age-old debate opens up the prospect of naturalizing free volition through its natural emergence via the same process of evoking development that has seen the emergence of intelligence on the world's stage. That is, only after the conceptual issues are settled, can the question of how things actually stand be answered. This work will be an important reassessment of free will not just because of the author's final conclusion, but because of the issue-illuminating path he takes to get there.
লেখক সম্পর্কে
Nicholas Rescher is distinguished university professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of numerous philosophical works and holds eight honorary degrees from universities on three continents. He has served as a president of the American Philosophical Association, the American Metaphilosophical Society, and the American Catholic Philosophical Association. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984, the Belgium Prix Mercier in 2005, the Aquinas Medal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association in 2007, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011.
ই-বুকে রেটিং দিন
আপনার মতামত জানান।
পঠন তথ্য
স্মার্টফোন এবং ট্যাবলেট
Android এবং iPad/iPhone এর জন্য Google Play বই অ্যাপ ইনস্টল করুন। এটি আপনার অ্যাকাউন্টের সাথে অটোমেটিক সিঙ্ক হয় ও আপনি অনলাইন বা অফলাইন যাই থাকুন না কেন আপনাকে পড়তে দেয়।
ল্যাপটপ ও কম্পিউটার
Google Play থেকে কেনা অডিওবুক আপনি কম্পিউটারের ওয়েব ব্রাউজারে শুনতে পারেন।
eReader এবং অন্যান্য ডিভাইস
Kobo eReaders-এর মতো e-ink ডিভাইসে পড়তে, আপনাকে একটি ফাইল ডাউনলোড ও আপনার ডিভাইসে ট্রান্সফার করতে হবে। ব্যবহারকারীর উদ্দেশ্যে তৈরি সহায়তা কেন্দ্রতে দেওয়া নির্দেশাবলী অনুসরণ করে যেসব eReader-এ ফাইল পড়া যাবে সেখানে ট্রান্সফার করুন।
