180 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book advances a new kind of compatibilist account of free will: indirect compatibilism. It is the first sustained philosophical analysis of the idea that the ordinary concept of free will is a conditional one.
Indirect compatibilism is the combination of two theses. The first is that the best understanding of our concept of free will is that it is a conditional concept —that indeterminism... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Folk free will in two dimensions
3. The challenge of the brain sciences
4. Indirect compatibilism
5. Influence, thresholds, and degrees
Biography
Andrew J. Latham is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aarhus University in the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas. He works mainly at the intersection between metaphysics, cognitive science, and ethics. His most recent work has appeared in, among other places, Noûs, The Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
