In Defence of Free Will
With other Philosophical Essays
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Book Description
First published in 2002. This is Volume IV of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1968, this is a collection of essays on the topic of looking at the key question of not whether linguistic analysis has a valuable function in philosophy-that has already been settled, but rather as to the precise nature and extent of its profitable employment in solving specific problems.
Table of Contents
Part I Philosophy of Morals; Chapter 1 Is ‘Free Will’ A Pseudo-Problem?; Chapter 2 In Defence of Free Will; Chapter 3 The Psychology of Effort of Will; Chapter 4 Moral and Non-Moral Values; Chapter 5 Moral Intuition and the Principle of Self-Realization; Chapter 6 Ethics Without Propositions; Chapter 7 Are There ‘Degrees’ of the Moral Emotion?; Chapter 8 Does Religion Challenge Ethical Autonomy?; Part II Philosophy of Knowledge; Chapter 9 Contradiction; Chapter 10 Self-Evidence; Chapter 11 Common-Sense Propositions and Philosophical Paradoxes; Chapter 12 The Mind’s Involvement In ‘Objects’; Chapter 13 Ryle on the Intellect;
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Biography
C A Campbell Emeritus Professor of Logic and Rhetoric Glasgow University.