
Rational Human Condition. Volume 2: Deep Freedom and Real Persons: A Study in Metaphysics
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on References
- Chapter 1
- Introduction: Freedom, Life, and Persons' Lives
- 1.1. Natural Libertarianism and Minded Animalism
- 1.2. Incompatibilistic Compatibilism
- 1.3. Deep Freedom and Principled Authenticity
- 1.4. The Central Claim of this Book, and Previews
- 1.5. An Annotated Outline of the Other Chapters
- 1.5.1. Chapter 2. Beyond Mechanism: The Dynamics of Life
- 1.5.2. Chapter 3. From Biology to Agency
- 1.5.3. Chapter 4. Neither/Nor: The Negative Case for Natural Libertarianism
- 1.5.4. Chapter 5. Either/Or: Deep Freedom and Principled Authenticity
- 1.5.5. Chapter 6. Minded Animalism I: What Real Persons Really Are
- 1.5.6. Chapter 7. Minded Animalism II: From Parfit to Real Personal Identity
- Chapter 2
- Beyond Mechanism: The Dynamics of Life
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Immanent Structuralism
- 2.3. Natural Mechanism, Computability, and Anti-Mechanism
- 2.4. Kant's Anti-Mechanism, Kantian Anti-Mechanism, Vitalism, and Emergentism
- 2.5. On the Representation of Life
- 2.6. Strong Kantian Non-Conceptualism and the Dynamicist Model of Life
- 2.7. How Life Does Not Strongly Supervene on the Physical, and Why
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3
- From Biology to Agency
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Two-Dimensional Rational Normativity
- 3.3. Kant's Biological Theory of Freedom
- 3.4. Practical-Freedom-in-Life: Strong Kantian Non-Intellectualism
- 3.5. The Rationality of the Heart: Principled Authenticity
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4
- Neither/Nor: The Negative Case for Natural Libertarianism
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. The Intuitive Definition of Free Will
- 4.3. The Four Metaphysical Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- 4.4. The Three Standard Options, Natural Mechanism, and the Fourfold Knot of Free Agency
- 4.5. Three Arguments for Classical Incompatibilism, and In-the-Zone Compatibilism
- 4.5. Three Arguments for Local Incompatibilism with Respect to Natural Mechanism
- 4.7. Sympathy for the Devil: Compatibilism Reconsidered
- 4.8. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death?
- 4.9. Too Hard to Live with: Strawson's Basic Argument, Hard Determinism, and Hard Incompatibilism
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5
- Either/Or: Deep Freedom and Principled Authenticity
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. The Internal Structure of Deep Freedom
- 5.3. From Frankfurt Back to Kierkegaard: How to Have a Live Option, or Kierkegaardian Either/Or, without Alternative Possibilities
- 5.4. Psychological Freedom, Deep Freedom, and Principled Authenticity
- Conclusion
- The Six-Step Argument for Natural Libertarianism
- Beyond Mechanism
- From Biology to Agency
- Neither/Nor
- Either/Or
- Deep Freedom and Principled Authenticity.
- Natural Libertarianism
- Chapter 6
- Minded Animalism I: What Real Persons Really Are
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. From Deep Freedom to Real Persons
- 6.3. Real Persons
- 6.4. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Real Personhood
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7
- Minded Animalism II: From Parfit to Real Personal Identity
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Parfit's Theory: Six Basic Claims
- 7.3. Against and Beyond Parfit 1: Two Reasons, and the Minded Animalist Criterion of Personal Identity
- 7.4. Against and Beyond Parfit 2: Four More Reasons
- 7.4.1. Simple Teletransportation
- 7.4.2. Callous Neuro-Surgeon
- 7.4.3. Psychological Spectrum
- 7.4.4. Brain Transplant
- 7.4.5. My Division
- Conclusion
- General Bibliography for The Rational Human Condition, Volumes 1-4
- References
- Endnotes
- About the Author
- Index
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