Nature's Challenge to Free Will

Nature's Challenge to Free Will
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780199640010
ISBN-13 : 0199640017
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Book Synopsis Nature's Challenge to Free Will by : Bernard Berofsky

Download or read book Nature's Challenge to Free Will written by Bernard Berofsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a defense of humean compatibilism, which bases the belief in the compatibility of free will and determinism on David Hume's idea that laws do not uphold the existence of necessary connections in nature.


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