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Title: Free Will (Oxford Readings in Philosophy) by Gary Watson, Milada Broukal ISBN: 0-19-925494-X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Unless you lack free will, keep looking for an alternative
Comment: The selection of essays is standard; the production standards of the book are low. Since the first edition, Oxford University Press has transferred this title to digital printing, which means that the book's typeface is 'dirty' and of fax quality. As this is a mere reprint (of the aforementioned bad technical quality) it also does not contain any new writing on the problem of free will. This books is not good value for money; most of the classic papers can be found in other anthologies, such as the one in the Hackett series, while the more recent ones reflect a biased perspective from 15 years ago.
Rating: 5
Summary: Has some very good essays
Comment: Freedom and determinism is one of the most troubling questions in philosophy, since if determinism is both true and incompatible with moral responsibility, nothing is unethical. The class I took on this topic was one of the most challenging courses in college, and this book has a great range of authors who provided some inventive and challenging views on this. I'm particularly interested in P. Strawson's essay in this book, where he claims that responsibility does not depend on freedom at all, and Nagel's essay on moral luck, where he talks about how people in different times in history have greater moral decisions to make than other people, and how this impinges on our freedom (e.g., someone in Nazi Germany has greater burdens than someone in America in the 1980s). The reading is provoking, and brings to mind Socrates' statement that he was the wisest of men because he alone knew that he knew nothing. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Free Will by Gary Watson
Comment: In Free Will, Watson has brought together an astonishing collection of essays by some of this century's most insightful philosophers. Included are essays by such respected names as Norman Malcolm, A.J. Ayer, Peter Strawson, Daniel C. Dennett, etc. These essays do a wonderful job of bringing to light the problems of free will and determinism, and illustrate many different positions on the subject. If these issues interest you, you must read this book. I couldn't put it down, and when I finished I read it again!
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Title: The Significance of Free Will by Robert Kane ISBN: 0195126564 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Free Will (Hackett Readings in Philosophy) by Derk Pereboom ISBN: 0872203727 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett ISBN: 0670031860 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel M. Wegner ISBN: 0262731622 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: How Free Are You?: The Determinism Problem by Ted Honderich ISBN: 0199251975 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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