Mark Balaguer: 4 books
by Mark Balaguer
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
A philosopher considers whether the scientific and philosophical arguments against free will are reason enough to give up our belief in it.
In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely...
by Mark Balaguer
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
In this highly absorbing work, Balaguer demonstrates that no good arguments exist either for or against mathematical platonism-for example, the view that abstract mathematical objects do exist and that mathematical theories are descriptions of such objects. Balaguer does this by establishing that...
by Mark Balaguer
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
An argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events.
Der freie Wille
Aus dem Englischen von Andreas Simon dos Santos
Language: German
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Seit jeher streiten sich Philosophie, Religion, Psychologie und Naturwissenschaften über den Freiheitsbegriff und die Definition des freien Willens. Aristoteles, Seneca, Plotin, Augustinus, Wilhelm von Ockham, Thomas von Aquin, Erasmus von Rotterdam, Descartes, Leibniz, Hobbes, Voltaire, Rousseau,...