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Author: Kevin Timpe Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1441115048 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 166
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Much contemporary scholarship on free will focuses on whether it is compatible with causal determinism. According to compatibilists, it is possible for an agent to be determined in all her choices and actions and still be free. Incompatibilists, on the other hand, think that the existence of free will is incompatible with the truth of determinism. There are two dominant general conceptions of the nature of free will. According to the first of these, free will is primarily a function of being able to do otherwise than one in fact does. On this view, free will centrally depends upon alternative possibilities. The second approach focuses instead on issues of sourcehood, holding that free will is primarily a function of an agent being the source of her actions in a particular way. This book demarcates these two different conceptions free will, explores the relationship between them, and examines how they relate to the debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists. It ultimately argues for a version of Source Incompatibilism.
Author: Kevin Timpe Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1441115048 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 166
Book Description
Much contemporary scholarship on free will focuses on whether it is compatible with causal determinism. According to compatibilists, it is possible for an agent to be determined in all her choices and actions and still be free. Incompatibilists, on the other hand, think that the existence of free will is incompatible with the truth of determinism. There are two dominant general conceptions of the nature of free will. According to the first of these, free will is primarily a function of being able to do otherwise than one in fact does. On this view, free will centrally depends upon alternative possibilities. The second approach focuses instead on issues of sourcehood, holding that free will is primarily a function of an agent being the source of her actions in a particular way. This book demarcates these two different conceptions free will, explores the relationship between them, and examines how they relate to the debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists. It ultimately argues for a version of Source Incompatibilism.
Author: Wilbur Cross Library (University of Connecticut). Special Collections Department Publisher: [Storrs] : University of Connecticut Library ISBN: Category : Underground press Languages : en Pages : 128
Author: Thomas Pink Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192508059 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 311
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Thomas Pink offers a new approach to the problem of free will. Do we have control of how we act, so that we are free to act in more than one way, and does it matter to morality whether we do? Pink argues that what matters to morality is not in fact the freedom to do otherwise, but something more primitive - a basic capacity or power to determine for ourselves what we do. This capacity might or might not take the form of a freedom to act in more than one way, and it might or might not be compatible with causal determinism. What really matters to morality is that it is we who determine what we do. What we do must not simply be a function of powers or capacities for which we are not responsible, or a matter of mere chance. At the heart of moral responsibility is a distinctive form of power that is quite unlike ordinary causation - a power by which we determine outcomes in a way quite differently from the way ordinary causes determine outcomes. Pink examines how this power is involved in action, and how the nature of action permits the operation of such a power to determine it.
Author: Leandro Vergara-Camus Publisher: Zed Books Ltd. ISBN: 1780327455 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 434
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The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against neoliberalism. But what have these movements achieved for their members in more than two decades of resistance and can any of these achievements realistically contribute to the rise of a viable alternative? Through a perfect balance of grassroots testimonies, participative observation and consideration of key debates in development studies, agrarian political economy, historical sociology and critical political economy, Land and Freedom compares, for the first time, the Zapatista and MST movements. Casting a spotlight on their resistance to globalizing market forces, Vergara-Camus gets to the heart of how these movements organize themselves and how territorial control, politicization and empowerment of their membership and the decommodification of social relations are key to understanding their radical development potential.
Author: Ray C. Rist Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 135131954X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 198
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Structured schools, free schools, graded schools, ungraded schools, no schools at all—the conflicts over public education in America rage on, for contemporary schools have not lived up to our expectations. The essence of the criticism reflected in the essays in this volume is that America's dual educational goals—free inquiry and social mobility-are not being met. Instead of producing enlightened citizens capable of high social and economic mobility, our schools have become warehouses of children stored as commodities, docile and immobile.
Author: Monica M. White Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469643707 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 209
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In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, and political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an alternative to the second wave of northern migration by African Americans--an opportunity to stay in the South, live off the land, and create a healthy community based upon building an alternative food system as a cooperative and collective effort. Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans.
Author: Albert Okechukwu Ikpenwa Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster ISBN: 3643901321 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 405
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This work focuses on economic activities, especially in the era of globalization, taking into consideration, their relationship with some of the traditional values of the Church. It focuses particurlarly on the dignity of the human person and how such relationship can promote or alienate the human person from God, self, fellow humans, society and nature. Rev. Father Dr. Albert Okechukwu Ikpenwa holds B. Phil. and BD from Pontifical Urban University, Rome; Masters and Doctorate degrees from Alphonsian Academy "Alfonsianum", Higher Institute of Moral Theology of the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome.
Author: Kevin Timpe
Author: Kevin Timpe
Author: Wilbur Cross Library (University of Connecticut). Special Collections Department
Author: Thomas Pink
Author: Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
Author: Leandro Vergara-Camus
Author: Ray C. Rist
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Author: Monica M. White
Author: Miloslav Bednář
Author: Albert Okechukwu Ikpenwa