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Free will and epistemology : a defence of the transcendental argument for freedom / Robert Lockie.

By: Lockie, Robert [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018Description: 288 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350029040 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Free will and determinism | Knowledge, Theory of | Philosophy | PhilosophyDDC classification: 123.5 Summary: 'Free Will and Epistemology' defends a modern version of the famous transcendental argument for free will: that we could not be justified in undermining a strong notion of free will, as a strong notion of free will is required for any such process of undermining to be itself epistemically justified. By arguing for a conception of internalism that goes back to the early days of the internalist-externalist debates, it draws on work by Richard Foley, William Alston and Alvin Plantinga to explain the importance of epistemic deontology and its role in the transcendental argument.
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'Free Will and Epistemology' defends a modern version of the famous transcendental argument for free will: that we could not be justified in undermining a strong notion of free will, as a strong notion of free will is required for any such process of undermining to be itself epistemically justified. By arguing for a conception of internalism that goes back to the early days of the internalist-externalist debates, it draws on work by Richard Foley, William Alston and Alvin Plantinga to explain the importance of epistemic deontology and its role in the transcendental argument.

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