Helen Steward
A Metaphysics for Freedom
- ISBN 13:
- 9780198706465
- author:
- Helen Steward
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 280
- Dimensions:
- 23.4 x 1.8 x 15.5 cm
- Genre:
- Society, Politics & Philosophy, Philosophy,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
A Metaphysics for Freedom by Helen Steward explores the relationship between agency and determinism. The author argues that agency is incompatible with determinism, not just in humans but also in other animals with complex powers. Steward challenges the idea that free will debate can be reduced to moral responsibility, instead proposing a different route to incompatibilism based on the existence of 'two-way' powers in animal agents. She considers questions of supervenience, laws, and levels of explanation, and outlines a top-down causation framework that could sustain the idea that an animal itself can bring about something. This book offers a nuanced response to the charge that indeterminism cannot help even if determinism is incompatible with agency.
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