Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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589913
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b419132
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Main Entry
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Mawson, T. J
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Title & Author
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Free will : : a guide for the perplexed /\ T.J. Mawson
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Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Continuum,, c2011
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Page. NO
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viii, 196 p. ;; 22 cm
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ISBN
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9781441196231 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 1441196234 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9781441102096 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1441102094 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
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Introduction : what is the problem of free will? -- Our experience of choice : what our everyday experience suggests about the existence and nature of free will -- Incompatibilism : some classic and some modern arguments for and against the view that we can't have free will if we live in a deterministic universe -- Indeterminism : whether we have reason to suppose our universe is deterministic, whether we have reason to suppose it is not, or whether we don't have reason either way -- Ultimate authorship : how we might be the ultimate authors of our actions -- Conclusion : how we are as we supposed ourselves to be
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Subject
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Free will and determinism
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Dewey Classification
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123/.5
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LC Classification
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BJ1461.M39 2011
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