What are the basic building blocks of the world? This book presents a naturalistic theory saying that the universe and everything in it can be reduced to three fundamental entities: a field, a set of values that can be actualized at different places in the field, and an actualizer of the values. The theory is defended by using it to answer the main questions in metaphysics, such as: What is causality, existence, laws of nature, consciousness, thinking, free will, time, mathematical entities, ethical values, etc.? The theory is compared with the main alternatives and argued to solve problems better than the existing theories. Several new theories are suggested, such as how to understand mental causation, free will and the truth of ethics and mathematics.
Автор: Sшvik Atle Ottesen Название: Free Will, Causality and the Self ISBN: 3110611740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110611748 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 4137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A major goal for compatibilists is to avoid the luck problem and to include all the facts from neuroscience and natural science in general which purportedly show that the brain works in a law-governed and causal way like any other part of nature. Libertarians, for their part, want to avoid the manipulation argument and demonstrate that very common and deep seated convictions about freedom and responsibility are true: it can really be fundamentally up to us as agents to determine that the future should be either A or B.
This book presents a theory of free will which integrates the main motivations of compatibilists and libertarians, while at the same time avoiding their problems. The so-called event-causal libertarianism is the libertarian account closest to compatibilitsm, as it claims there is indeterminism in the mind of an agent. The charge of compatibilists, however, is that this position is impaired by the problem of luck. This book is unique in arguing that free will in a strong sense of the term does not require indeterminism in the brain, only indeterminism somewhere in the world which there plausibly is.
Автор: Ottesen Bjorn Название: Reaching Post-Christian Europeans ISBN: 0993218822 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993218828 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3724.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bj rn Ottesen provides us with an insight into the future of Christian mission in Northern Europe and beyond. He offers an honest account of the church's successes and failures. His analysis of the Danish Adventist context has relevance beyond Denmark and beyond Adventism. His assessment of the attitudes of modern Danes to organised religion and spirituality gives the book added authority. This is a thought-provoking and somewhat disturbing read.
Автор: Atle Ottesen S?vik Название: Free Will, Causality and the Self ISBN: 311047431X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110474312 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 14867.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Søvik argues that since there is some indeterminism in the world, agents can be fundamental sources of their actions and thus freer than what compatibilists think without having to appeal to mysterious causation. The theory presupposes a plausible understanding of causation and the self, and shows that in an indetermined world it will sometimes be right to select persons as fundamental causes of their choices.
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