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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: freedom of the will
  name:
    name part: Lucas, J. R. (John Randolph)
    name part: 1929-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 1970
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 181 pages)
  abstract: In the 1960s, the Oxford philosopher J.R. Lucas published a refutation of computationalism based on Geodel's theorems. This book is his most complete statement on the matter, effectively countering many earlier criticisms.
  table of contents: Freedom and philosophy -- Responsibility and freedom -- The common sense reply -- Necessity and constraint -- Determinism without tears -- Determinism and responsibility -- Prediction -- Causes and explanations -- Regularity and rational explanations -- Regularity and rational explanations -- Partial and complete explanations -- General arguments for and against determinism -- Types of determinism -- Logical determinism or fatalism -- Theological determinism: omniscience and foreknowledge -- Psychological determinism -- Physical determinism -- Reformulation of physical determinism -- Arguments in favor of physical determinism -- Criticisms of metaphysical materialism -- Quantum mechanics -- The presupposition of thought -- Self-reference -- Referring -- Godel numbering and Godel's theorem -- The application of Godel's theorem -- Objections to Godelian argument -- Dialogues and intuitions -- Mathematical theology -- Reflections on the Godelian argument -- Consequences.
  note: by J.R. Lucas.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-176).
  subject:
    topic: Free will and determinism
  subject:
    topic: Personal Autonomy
  subject:
    topic: Libre arbitre et déterminisme
  subject:
    topic: Free will and determinism
  classification: BJ1461 .L78 1970eb
  classification: 123.5
  classification: 08.36
  classification: CC 7220
  classification: CP 4500
  classification: 5,1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Freedom of the will
    name:
      name part: Lucas, J.R. (John Randolph), 1929-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Clarendon P., 1970
    identifier: (OCoLC)105645
  identifier: 0191680680
  identifier: 9780191680687
  identifier: 019824343X
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MT4IT
    record creation date: 701221
    record change date: 20260318173632.3
    record identifier: in00005703053
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng