Ebook: Freedom within Reason

This treatise charts a course between incompatibilism, or the notion that freedom and responsibility require causal and metaphysical independence from the forces of nature, and compatibilism, or the notion that people are free and responsible as long as their actions are governed by their desires.;Contents; 1. The Dilemma of Autonomy (In Which the Problems of Responsibility and Free Will Are Presented); 2. The Real Self View (In Which a Nonautonomous Conception of Free Will and Responsibility is Examined and Criticized); 3. The Autonomy View (In Which an Autonomous Conception of Free Will and Responsibility Is Examined and Criticized); 4. The Reason View (In Which a Nonautonomous Conception of Free Will and Responsibility Is Proposed); 5. Ability and Possibility (In Which the Implications of Determinism for Responsibility Are Discussed).