TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hook,Sidney
TI  - Determinism and freedom in the age of modern science /Sidney Hook, editor
AV  - BJ1461 .D484 1961
PY  - 1958///
CY  - New York
PB  - Collier Books
KW  - Free will and determinism
KW  - Congresses
N1  - "Proceedings of the first annual New York University Institute of Philosophy, held at Washington Square, New York, February 9 and 10, 1957."--p. 5; 2; Introduction; Carroll V. Newsom --; Pt. I. Determinism in philosophy. 1. The case for determinism; Brand Blanshard. 2. Making something happen; Max Black. 3. Determinism and novelty; William Barrett --; Pt. II. Determinism in modern science. 1. Determinism in modern science; Percy W. Bridgman. 2. The relativity of determinism; Milton K. Munitz. 3. The case for indeterminism; Alfred Lande. 4. Determinism and the cosmos  / Dennis W. Sciama --; Pt. III. Determinism and responsibility in law and ethics. 1. Legal responsibility and excuses; H.L.A. Hart. 2. Hard and soft  determinism; Paul Edwards. 3. What means this freedom? / John Hospers --; Pt. IV. Discussion. 1. "Excusing conditions" and moral responsibility; Elizabeth Lane Beardsley. 2. Determinism and the justifiability of moral blame; Richard Brandt. 3. Determinism and punishment; Percy W. Bridgman. 4. Responsibility and avoidability; Roderick W. Chisholm. 5. Determinism, freedom, and responsibility; C.J. Ducasse. 6. Some reflections on "the case for determinism" / Carl G. Hempel. 7. Some further reflections on moral responsibility; Howard W. Hintz. 8. Necessity, indeterminism, and sentimentalism; Sidney Hook. 9. Punishment as justice and as price; on randomness; Abba Lerner. 10. Some notes on determinism; Ernest Nagel. 11.  Causation, determinism, and the "good" / F.S.C. Northrop. 12. Determinism,  freedom, moral responsibility, and causal talk; Arthur Pap. 13. Some equivocations of the notion of responsibility; Alfred Schultz. 14. Observations; Dennis W. Sciama. 15. Determinism and the theory of agency /  Richard Taylor. 16. Common sense and beyond; Paul Weiss. 17. On Causation  / H. Van R. Wilson; 2
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