Free Will & Action Historical and Contemporary Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grgić, Filip (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pećnjak, Davor (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action, 6
• Subjects: Philosophy of nature.; Mathematics-Philosophy.; Philosophy of Nature.; Philosophy of Mathematics.

This book consists of eleven new essays that provide new insights into classical and contemporary issues surrounding free will and human agency. They investigate topics such as the nature of practical knowledge and its role in intentional action; mental content and explanations of action; recent arg...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Practical Knowledge, Formal Causation and Difference-Making in Acting Intentionally (Urlike Mürbe)
• Chapter 2. Wide Content Explanations (Ljudevit Hanžek)
• Chapter 3. Free Deliberation (Davor Pećnjak)
• Chapter 4. Kane, Balaguer, Libertarianism, and Luck (John Lemos)
• Chapter 5. The Situationist Challenge to Free Will (Brian Garvey)
• Chapter 6. Narration and the Normative Theory of Freedom (Adam J. Graves)
• Chapter 7. Psychopathy, Identification and Mental Time Travel (Luca Malatesti and Filip Ceč)
• Chapter 8. The Earliest "Quantum Missionaries" of Free Will: Their Physics, Politics and Religion (Boris Kožnjak)
• Chapter 9. Aristotelian Deliberation Between Compatibilism and Incompatibilism (Filip Grgić)
• Chapter 10
• Hobbes and Bramhall on (Free) Will and Freedom (Zoran Gjivo Mimica)
• Chapter 11. D'Holbach's Scholastic Conception of the Will (Hasse Hämäläinen).