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Freedom and Determinism
"A Bradford book."This collection of contemporary essays by prominent contemporary thinkers on the topics of determinism and free agency concentrates primarily on two areas: the compatibility problem and the metaphysics of moral responsibility. There are also essays on the related fields of determinism and action theory. The book is unique in that it contains up-to-date summaries of the life-wo…
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- 9780262269773
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- 1 online resource (vi, 329 pages) :illustrations.
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Time and identity
The concepts of time and identity seem at once unproblematic and frustratingly difficult. Time is an intricate part of our experience—it would seem that the passage of time is a prerequisite for having any experience at all—and yet recalcitrant questions about time remain. Is time real? Does time flow? Do past and future moments exist? Philosophers face similarly stubborn questions about id…
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- 9780262265799
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- 1 online resource (vi, 330 pages).
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Causation and Explanation
"A Bradford book."Leading scholars discuss the development and application of theories of causation and explanation, offering a state-of-the-art view of current work on these two topics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269766
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 315 pages) :illustrations.
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Knowledge and skepticism, Volume 5
There are two main questions in epistemology: What is knowledge? And: Do we have any of it? The first question asks after the nature of a concept; the second involves grappling with the skeptic, who believes that no one knows anything. This collection of original essays addresses the themes of knowledge and skepticism, offering both contemporary epistemological analysis and historical perspecti…
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- 9780262265782
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- 1 online resource (viii, 367 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Action, Ethics, and Responsibility
Most philosophical explorations of responsibility discuss the topic solely in terms of metaphysics and the 'free will' problem. By contrast, these essays by leading philosophers view responsibility from a variety of perspectives - metaphysics ethics, action theory, and the philosophy of law.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289276
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- 1 online resource (vi, 307 pages).
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Carving Nature at Its Joints: Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science
"A Bradford book.""Contemporary discussions of the success of science often invoke an ancient metaphor from Plato's Phaedrus: successful theories should 'carve nature at its joints.' But is nature really 'jointed'? Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issue…
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- 9780262298780
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- 1 online resource (viii, 355 pages).
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