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Pereboom, Derk, 1957-

Title Living without free will / Derk Pereboom.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials	EBSCO Ebook	Downloadable
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Description	1 online resource (xxiii, 231 pages).
Series	Cambridge studies in philosophy
	Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
Contents	Alternative possibilities and causal histories -- Coherence objections to libertarianism -- Empirical objections to agent-causal libertarianism -- Problems of compatibilism -- The contours of hard incompatibilism -- Hard compatibilism and criminal behavior -- Hard incompatibilism and meaning in life.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Derk Pereboom argues that our best scientific theories have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform, and that because of this, we are not morally responsible for any of them. In addition, adopting this perspective would provide significant benefit for our lives.
Subject	Free will and determinism.
	PHILOSOPHY -- Free Will & Determinism.
	Free will and determinism. (OCoLC)fst00933968
	Vrije wil.
	Determinisme.
Other Form:	Print version: Pereboom, Derk, 1957- Living without free will. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521791987 (DLC) 00059877 (OCoLC)44650914
ISBN	0511012500 (electronic bk.)
	9780511012501 (electronic bk.)
	9780511498824 (electronic bk.)
	0511498829 (electronic bk.)
	9780511046940 (electronic bk.)
	0511046944 (electronic bk.)

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