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基本説明
Features a substantial additional appendix offering a concise new presentation of some of the main ideas and arguments of the book.
Full Description
This is a revised and updated edition of Galen Strawson's groundbreaking first book, where he argues that there is a fundamental sense in which there is no such thing as free will or true moral responsibility (as this is ordinarily understood). This conclusion is very hard to accept. On the whole we continue to believe firmly both that we have free will and that we are truly morally responsible for what we do. Strawson devotes much of the book to an attempt to explain why this is so. He examines various aspects of the 'cognitive phenomenology' of freedom - the nature, causes, and consequences of our deep commitment to belief in freedom. In particular, he considers at length a number of problems that are raised by the suggestion that, if freedom were possible, believing oneself to be a free agent would be a necessary condition of being a free agent.
Contents
PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION (2010) ; PREFACE ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Libertarianism, Action, and Self-determination ; 3. Kant and Commitment ; 4. Commitment, Illusion, and Truth ; 5. Non-rational Commitment: A View of Freedom ; 6. Phenomenology, Commitment, and What Might Happen ; 7. Objectivism: Preliminaries ; 8. Choice ; 9. Self-consciousness ; 10. Evidence and Independence ; 11. Contravention and Convention ; 12. The Spectator Subject and Integration ; 13. The Natural Epictetans ; 14. The Experience of Ability to Choose ; 15. Subjectivism and Experience of Freedom ; 16. Antinomy and Truth ; APPENDICES ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
