did-you-know? rent-now

Rent More, Save More! Use code: ECRENTAL

did-you-know? rent-now

Rent More, Save More! Use code: ECRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

9780199942398

Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge

by ;
  • ISBN13:

    9780199942398

  • ISBN10:

    0199942390

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2015-06-02
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
List Price: $192.00 Save up to $158.36
  • Rent Book $129.60
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

How To: Textbook Rental

Looking to rent a book? Rent Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge [ISBN: 9780199942398] for the semester, quarter, and short term or search our site for other textbooks by Fischer, John Martin; Todd, Patrick. Renting a textbook can save you up to 90% from the cost of buying.

Summary

We typically think we have free will. But how could we have free will, if for anything we do, it was already true in the distant past that we would do that thing? Or how could we have free will, if God already knows in advance all the details of our lives? Such issues raise the specter of "fatalism". This book collects sixteen previously published articles on fatalism, truths about the future, and the relationship between divine foreknowledge and human freedom, and includes a substantial introductory essay and bibliography. Many of the pieces collected here build bridges between discussions of human freedom and recent developments in other areas of metaphysics, such as philosophy of time. Ideal for courses in free will, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge will encourage important new directions in thinking about free will, time, and truth.

Author Biography


John Martin Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, where he has held a University of California President's Chair (2006-10). He was President of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (2013-4). He is Project Leader of The Immortality Project (2011-14), sponsored by The John Templeton Foundation.

Patrick Todd is a new faculty member (as Chancellor's Fellow) at the University of Edinburgh, where he began in October 2013. Previously he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck and the Munich School of Philosophy. Before that, he completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, in December 2011.

Table of Contents


I. Preface

II. Introduction Patrick Todd and John Martin Fischer

III. The arguments for fatalism

Richard Taylor, "Fate"
Peter Van Inwagen, "Fatalism"
Trenton Merricks, "Truth and Freedom"
John Martin Fischer and Patrick Todd, "The Truth about Freedom: A Reply to Merricks"
Penelope Mackie, "Fatalism, Incompatibilism, and the Power to Do Otherwise"
Michael Rea, "Presentism and Fatalism"
John Perry, "Compatibilist Options"

IV. The problem of foreknowledge

Linda Zagzebski, "Omniscience and the Arrow of Time"
David Widerker, "Troubles With Ockhamism"
Alicia Finch and Michael Rea, "Presentism and Ockham's Way Out"
Patrick Todd, "Geachianism"
David Hunt, "On Augustine's Way Out"

V. The logic of future contingents

Charles Hartshorne, "The Meaning of 'Is Going to Be"
A.N. Prior, "It Was to Be."
John MacFarlane, "Future Contingents and Relative Truth"
Sven Rosenkranz, "In Defence of Ockhamism"

VI. Bibliography (compiled by Patrick Todd)

Index

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program