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Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy

Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy

Harris, James A.

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Philosophical Monographs

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0199268606
ISBN13: 9780199268603
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Aug 11 2005
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The eighteenth century was a time of brilliant philosophical innovation in Britain. In Of Liberty and Necessity James A. Harris presents the first comprehensive account of the period's discussion of what remains a central problem of philosophy, the question of the freedom of the will. He offers new interpretations of contributions to the free will debate made by canonical figures such as Locke, Hume, Edwards, and Reid, and also discusses in detail the arguments of some less familiar writers. Harris puts the eighteenth-century debate about the will and its freedom in the context of the period's concern with applying what Hume calls the experimental method of reasoning to the human mind. His book will be of substantial interest to historians of philosophy and anyone concerned with the free will problem.

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