ENGLISH

Freedom and Belief

By Galen Strawson

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2010
ISBN
0199247501, 9780199247509
Google Books ID
DjB9AM0tupMC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2371854 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
243\243
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

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.

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