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William King on Free Will

William King on Free Will

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William King on Free Will

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William King on Free Will

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Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

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Philosophers' imprint, 2019-06, Vol.19, p.1

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Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

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William King's De Origine Mali (1702) contains an interesting, sophisticated, and original account of free will. King finds 'necessitarian' theories of freedom, such as those advocated by Hobbes and Locke, inadequate, but argues that standard versions of libertarianism commit one to the claim that free will is a faculty for going wrong. On such vie...

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2553320097

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1533-628X

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