Can Machines Have Free Will? The Concept of Free Will in Relation to the Psychophysical Problem
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Mainstream contemporary solutions to the so-called “free will problem”
- Introduction
- The problem of free will
- Possible relations between free will and determinism
- Incompatibilism
- Meaning of “could have done otherwise”
- Argument for incompatibilism: The consequence argument
- Free will and the consequence argument
- Compatibilism
- Arguments for compatibilism
- Discussion of arguments for compatibilism
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Free will and dualism
- Introduction
- Cartesian dualism
- Arguments for Cartesian dualism
- Freedom of will
- Problems of interactionism in Cartesian dualism
- Problems of Cartesian dualism with respect to free will problem
- Other dualist solutions
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Free will and materialism
- Introduction
- Biological naturalism
- Anomalous monism
- Eliminative materialism
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Free will and transcendental idealism
- Introduction
- Theoretical problems with eliminative materialism
- Transcendental idealism and free will
- Things in themselves, appearances and eliminative materialism
- Kant and free will in relation to compatibilism and incompatibilism
- Kantianism and mysterianism
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Series Index
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DOI 10.3726/b21329
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About the author
The Author
Krzysztof Krenc is a philosopher, psychologist and computer scientist who specialises in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
About the book
Krzysztof Krenc
Can Machines Have Free Will?
The Concept of Free Will in Relation
to the Psychophysical Problem
The author analyses the concept of free will in the context of the psychophysical problem. He builds his analysis upon the presumption that the contemporary debate between compatibilists and incompatibilists is not of high relevance, since “free will” is a highly technical and vague term. So instead of directly answering questions like “Is free will possible?” or “What is free will?”, he starts his analyses from specifying a solution to the psychophysical problem and then works towards a possible definition of free will.
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Contents
Chapter 1: Mainstream contemporary solutions to the so-called “free will problem”
Possible relations between free will and determinism
Meaning of “could have done otherwise”
Argument for incompatibilism: The consequence argument
Free will and the consequence argument
Discussion of arguments for compatibilism
Details
- Pages
- 150
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631910764
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631910771
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631908990
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21329
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2024 (January)
- Keywords
- materialism and transcendental idealism propositional attitudes and eliminative materialism Analysis of the mainstream contemporary solutions to the problem of free will analysis of the notion of free will in relation to dualism
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2023. 150 pp.
