Great Philosophical Debates : Free Will and Determinism Part 1 of 2

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"Course no. 4235."
24 lectures on 4 discs ; 30 mintues per lecture.
Course guidebook including lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography laid in disc container.
lecture 1. Free will and determinism--the basic debate -- lecture 2. Fate and karma -- lecture 3. Divine predestination and foreknowledge -- lecture 4. Causal determinism -- lecture 5. Ancient and medieval indeterminism -- lecture 6. Agent causation -- lecture 7. Ancient and classical compatibilism -- lecture 8. Contemporary compatibilism -- lecture 9. Hard determinism -- lecture 10. Free will impossibilism -- lecture 11. The belief in free will -- lecture 12. Physics and free will.
lecture 13. Neuroscience and determinism -- lecture 14. Neuroscience of conscious choice -- lecture 15. Psychology and free will -- lecture 16. Deontological ethics and free will -- lecture 17. Utilitarianism and free will -- lecture 18. Responsibility and the emotions -- lecture 19. Pessimism and illusionism -- lecture 20. Opitmism and skepticism -- lecture 21. The ethics of punishment -- lecture 22. The power of punishment -- lecture 23. Moral responsibility and psychopathy -- lecture 24. The future of responsibility.
Taught by: Professor Shaun Nichols, Univerity of Arizona.
By explaining the fundamental approaches to this familiar debate, Professor Nichols thoroughly prepares you for an in-depth study of the complexities of free will and determinism. You discover what great thinkers through the ages believe about the choices we make and understand how we might deal with their implications.
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