Author: Sproul, R. C. Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: With nearly 200,000 copies sold in its 25 years, Chosen by God by Dr. R. C. Sproul is a contemporary classic on predestination, a doctrine that isn't just for Calvinists, says Sproul. It is a doctrine...
Author: Haji, Ishtiyaque Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book addresses a dilemma concerning freedom and moral obligation (obligation, right, and wrong). If determinism is true, then no one has control over one's actions. If indeterminism is true, then...
Author: Wallace, David Foster Publisher: Columbia University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Long before he probed the workings of time, human choice, and human frailty in Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote a brilliant philosophical critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. I...
Author: Dilman, Ilham Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The debate between free will and its opposing doctrine, determinism, is one of the key issues in philosophy. Free Will provides a comprehensive introduction to this highly important question.
Author: Bok, Hilary Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to sho...
Author: Hobbes, Thomas / Bramhall, John Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Do human beings ever act freely, and if so what does freedom mean? Is everything that happens antecedently caused, and if so how is freedom possible? Is it right, even for God, to punish people for th...
Author: Pereboom, Derk Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most people assume that, even though some degenerative or criminal behavior may be caused by influences beyond our control, ordinary human actions are not similarly generated, but rather are freely ch...
Author: Ells, Peter Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Materialism asserts that the universe and everything within it, including ourselves, is a deterministic machine, trapped until the end of time on the rigid tracks of inviolable laws. Only the mechanis...
Author: Bernstein, Richard Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The ancient and modern question of what is the nature of man and his activity and what ought to be the directions pursued in this activity is once again being reaffirmed as a primary issue for reflec...
Author: Laitman, Michael Publisher: Laitman Kabbalah Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Self-Interest vs. Altruism in the Global Era presents a new perspective on the challenges currently facing the world. Dr. Laitman shows the reader that the problems of the world are the consequence of...
Author: White, Morton Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the main philosophical puzzles is the question of free will: what is it? do we have it? how do we know we have it? In this highly original study, noted philosopher Morton White offers a novel d...
Author: Laitman, Michael Publisher: Bnei Baruch/Laitman Kabbalah Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Self-Interest vs. Altruism in the Global Era regards the world’s challenges as necessary consequences of humanity’s growing egotism, rather than a series of errors. The book suggests ways ...
Author: Marmor, Andrei Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone...
Author: Hofman, Mark Publisher: Bibliofiles Ltd Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A new approach to the problem of free will, setting it in the context of the wider problem of how to account for the differences between human behaviour and that of all other animals. It also includes...
