Free Will: A Guide for the Perplexed

by T.J. Mawson

Book Overview

In everyday life, we often suppose ourselves to be free to choose between several courses of action. But if we examine further, we find that this view seems to rest on metaphysical and meta-ethical presuppositions almost all of which look problematic.

How can we be free if everything is determined by factors beyond our control, stretching back in time to the Big Bang and the laws of nature operating then? The only alternative to determinism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441102094
• ISBN13: 9781441102096
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"