Freedom within Reason
by Susan Wolf
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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.Tags
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Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work focuses chiefly on ethics and its close relations in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, political philosophy, and aesthetics. She is the author of Freedom within Reason (OUP, 1990) and Meaning in life and why it show more matters (Princeton, 2010); and co-editor with christopher Grau of Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction (OUP, 2014). show less
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- 1990
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