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Great philosophical debates free will and determinism

2008

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Great philosophical debates [videorecording] : free will and determinism / Shaun Nichols.
Publisher, Date:	Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, c2008.
Description:	4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (133 p. ; 19 cm.).
Summary:	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.
Series:	Great courses. Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & Intellectual history.
Subjects:	Free will and determinism. Philosophy.
Other Author:	Nichols, Shaun. Teaching Company.
Other Title:	Free will and determinism.
Notes:	"Course no. 4235." Lectures 1-24 of 24 lectures on 4 discs in two containers; 30 mintues per lecture. Course guidebook including lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography laid in disc container. Taught by: Professor Shaun Nichols, Univerity of Arizona. DVD.
Contents:	Part 1. 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 -- Part 2. 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.
ISBN:	1598034626 9781598034622
Publisher Number:	PD4235-01 PD4235-02
Other Number:	262464882
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	226023
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Call Number:	GREAT DVD 123.5 Great ph
Medium:	[videorecording]

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