J T Ismael: How Physics Makes Us Free

Cover: 9780190090586 | How Physics Makes Us Free | J T Ismael | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2019

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Beschreibung

J.T. Ismael's book will be the first to truly examine the question of what physics actually tell us about whether or not we are free to act. Her conclusions are surprising and engaging, and importantly show that physics does actually not say that we are not free.

Über den Autor

J.T. Ismael is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She earned her Ph.D at Princeton University and has also taught at Stanford University and the University of Arizona for many years. She has held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the National Humanities Center, a QEII from the Australian Research Council and the Templeton Foundation. In addition to How Physics Makes Us Free, she is the author of The Situated Self (OUP 2007) and Essays on Symmetry (2001). She splits her time between Manhattan and the Sonoran Desert, where she is happier than anywhere else.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Part I: Selves in Nature

O A clash of facades

1 What am I?

2 The rise of the Self-governor

3 The Unity of the self

Part II: Human Action and the Natural Order

4 How can I be free if my actions are determined by physical laws? The Consequence

Argument

5 How can I be free if my actions are caused by things outside my control? Causation

6 The Open Future

7 The Paradox of Predictability

8 Self-Constitution; the making of the self

Glossary

Works Cited

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780190090586
ISBN-10:	0190090588
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ismael, J T
Hersteller:	Hurst & Co.
Maße:	233 x 159 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	J T Ismael
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2019
Gewicht:	0,419 kg

Artikel-ID: 117494316

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Part I: Selves in Nature

O A clash of facades

1 What am I?

2 The rise of the Self-governor

3 The Unity of the self

Part II: Human Action and the Natural Order

4 How can I be free if my actions are determined by physical laws? The Consequence

Argument

5 How can I be free if my actions are caused by things outside my control? Causation

6 The Open Future

7 The Paradox of Predictability

8 Self-Constitution; the making of the self

Glossary

Works Cited

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780190090586
ISBN-10:	0190090588
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ismael, J T
Hersteller:	Hurst & Co.
Maße:	233 x 159 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	J T Ismael
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2019
Gewicht:	0,419 kg