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Nature's challenge to free will [electronic resource] /

by Berofsky, Bernard.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780191738197 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Free will and determinismOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Bernard Berofsky argues that there is room in a deterministic world for a conception of free will as self-determination including the power of genuine choice. He grounds this compatibilist position in a new version of the regularity theory of laws, derived from David Hume's denial of necessary connections in nature.
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Bernard Berofsky argues that there is room in a deterministic world for a conception of free will as self-determination including the power of genuine choice. He grounds this compatibilist position in a new version of the regularity theory of laws, derived from David Hume's denial of necessary connections in nature.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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