An Essay on Free Will
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An Essay on Free Will is a highly influential philosophical work by Peter van Inwagen that rigorously defends incompatibilism and examines the relationship between free will, determinism, and moral responsibility.
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| An Essay on Free Will canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | philosophy ⓘ |
| arguesAgainst | compatibilism ⓘ |
| author | Peter van Inwagen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citedBy | numerous works in contemporary free will debates ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States
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| examines |
consequences of determinism for moral responsibility
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relationship between free will and determinism ⓘ relationship between free will and moral responsibility ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
analytic philosophy
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metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of action ⓘ |
| genre | analytic philosophy monograph ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
contemporary debates on free will and determinism
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philosophical discussions of moral responsibility ⓘ |
| hasPart |
analysis of moral responsibility under determinism
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arguments for incompatibilism ⓘ critical discussion of compatibilist theories ⓘ discussion of the consequence argument ⓘ |
| hasReception | widely discussed in academic literature on free will ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
ability to do otherwise
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causal determinism ⓘ compatibilism vs incompatibilism ⓘ moral blame and praise ⓘ problem of free will and determinism ⓘ |
| isConsidered | highly influential in free will literature ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
determinism
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free will ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on late 20th-century analytic philosophy of free will
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rigorous defense of incompatibilism ⓘ systematic analysis of free will and determinism ⓘ |
| philosophicalPositionDefended | incompatibilism ⓘ |
| philosophicalSubdiscipline | philosophy of free will ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| publisher | Oxford University Press ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
advanced students of philosophy
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professional philosophers ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century philosophy ⓘ |
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