Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism: A Philosophical Dialogue

Description

John Lemos' Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism offers an up-to-date introduction to free will (and associated) debates in an engaging, dialogic format that recommends it for use by beginning students in philosophy as well as by undergraduates in intermediate courses in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and action theory.

John Lemos is Professor of Philosophy, Coe College.

There has been a great deal of philosophical progress in the free will debate in the last two generations, and much of this progress has been complex and rather technical. In less than one hundred pages, John Lemos manages to introduce the reader to this debate, as well as to related debates about religion and science as they relate to free willwithout dumbing down and in a pleasant, accessible dialogue form. This is an impressive achievement. Saul Smilansky, Professor of Philosophy, University of Haifa Lemos dialogue on free will is up to the standards of the very best of Hacketts excellent previous introductory dialogues on philosophical topics. Robert Kane, University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin Accessible, substansive, and well-organized. Intelligent use of the dialogue form. --Raymond Belliotti, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy, SUNY Fredonia