Humean Libertarianism (eBook)

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Marius Backmann, University of Münster, Germany.

CONTENTS 5
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7
Introduction 9
1 Determinism 19
1.1 Epistemic Determinism 20
1.2 Logical Determinism 25
1.3 Ontological Determinism 32
1.3.1 Determinism in Quantum Theory 45
1.3.1.1 Copenhagen-like Theories of Quantum Mechanics 48
1.3.1.2 Bohmian Hidden Variables Theories 55
2 Necessity and Laws of Nature 61
2.1 Necessitarianism 68
2.1.1 Armstrong, Tooley, and Dretske 68
2.1.2 Bird 80
2.2 Broadly Humean Accounts 97
2.2.1 Orthodox Humeanism 106
2.2.2 Best Systems 109
3 Libertarianism 127
3.1 Noncausalism 130
3.2 Causalism: Agent Causation 135
3.3 Causalism: Event Causation 151
4 Objections against Event-causal Libertarianism 155
4.1 Objections against Alternativism 156
4.1.1 The Consequence Argument and the Truth of Determinism 156
4.1.2 Frankfurt-style Cases 174
4.1.3 Alternative Possibilities and Modern Science 182
4.1.3.1 Jordan, Penrose, and Hameroff 183
4.1.3.2 Kane 190
4.1.3.3 Balaguer 194
4.2 Objections against Control and a Humean Solution 197
4.2.1 The Argument from Luck and Selected Responses 198
4.2.1.1 Kane 201
4.2.1.2 Mele 207
4.2.1.3 Balaguer 215
4.2.2 Libet’s Experiment 218
4.2.3 Control in Humean Libertarianism 221
5 Humean Libertarianism: Fortes, Foibles, and Future Follies 237
References 243