Great Philosophical Debates : Free Will and Determinism Part 1

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"24 lectures"--Container.
At head of title: The Great Courses Philosophy & Intellectual History.
Course no. 4235.
Compact discs.
Part 1 of 2 parts. Contains lectures 1-12 of 24 on the philosophical debates of free will and determinism.
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. Optimism 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.
Lectures delivered by Professor Shaun Nichols, Univerity of Arizona.
Explains the fundamental approaches to this familiar debate and provides an in-depth study of the complexities of free will and determinism. Discover what great thinkers through the ages believe about the choices and the implications.

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