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Nicolas Malebranche freedom in an occasionalist world / by Peppers-Bates, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Malebranche's metaphysics and the problem of human freedom -- God, order, and general volitions -- Arnauld and Malebranche on the power of the human intellect -- The cognitive faculties and the divine ideas -- Malebranche on free will and imminent causation.…”
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Nicolas Malebranche freedom in an occasionalist world / by Peppers-Bates, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Malebranche's metaphysics and the problem of human freedom -- God, order, and general volitions -- Arnauld and Malebranche on the power of the human intellect -- The cognitive faculties and the divine ideas -- Malebranche on free will and imminent causation.…”
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The Philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling / by Marx, Werner

Table of Contents: “…The fundamental notions in Schelling's and Habermas's conceptions of history -- The task and method of philosophy in Schelling's system of transcendental idealism and in Hegel's phenomenology of spirit -- The task of Schelling's philosophical inquiries into the essence of human freedom.…”
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The Philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling / by Marx, Werner

Table of Contents: “…The fundamental notions in Schelling's and Habermas's conceptions of history -- The task and method of philosophy in Schelling's system of transcendental idealism and in Hegel's phenomenology of spirit -- The task of Schelling's philosophical inquiries into the essence of human freedom.…”
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Spinoza's ethics a reader's guide / by Cook, J. Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Spinoza and the Ethics : background and context -- Main themes and influences -- Reading the text -- Part 1 : On God -- Part 2 : On the nature and origin of the mind -- Part 3 : On the origin and nature of the affects -- Part 4 : Of human bondage, or the power of the emotions -- Part 5 : On the power of the intellect, or on human freedom -- The influence of the Ethics.…”
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Spinoza's ethics a reader's guide / by Cook, J. Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Spinoza and the Ethics : background and context -- Main themes and influences -- Reading the text -- Part 1 : On God -- Part 2 : On the nature and origin of the mind -- Part 3 : On the origin and nature of the affects -- Part 4 : Of human bondage, or the power of the emotions -- Part 5 : On the power of the intellect, or on human freedom -- The influence of the Ethics.…”
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Defending God biblical responses to the problem of evil / by Crenshaw, James L.

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Spreading the blame around -- The atheistic answer : abandoning the quest -- Alternative gods : falling back on a convenient worldview -- A demon at work : letting benevolence slip -- Part II: Redefining God -- Limited power and knowledge : accentuating human freedom -- Split personality : reconciling justice with mercy -- A disciplinary procedure : stimulating growth in virtue -- Punishment for sin : blaming the victim -- Part III: Shifting to the human scene -- Suffering as atonement : making the most of a bad thing -- Justice deferred : banking on life beyond the grave -- Mystery : appealing to human ignorance -- Disinterested righteousness : questioning the problem.…”
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Defending God biblical responses to the problem of evil / by Crenshaw, James L.

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Spreading the blame around -- The atheistic answer : abandoning the quest -- Alternative gods : falling back on a convenient worldview -- A demon at work : letting benevolence slip -- Part II: Redefining God -- Limited power and knowledge : accentuating human freedom -- Split personality : reconciling justice with mercy -- A disciplinary procedure : stimulating growth in virtue -- Punishment for sin : blaming the victim -- Part III: Shifting to the human scene -- Suffering as atonement : making the most of a bad thing -- Justice deferred : banking on life beyond the grave -- Mystery : appealing to human ignorance -- Disinterested righteousness : questioning the problem.…”
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Duns Scotus by Cross, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Humanity: Body, Soul, and Immortality -- 7. Humanity: Freedom, Ethics, and Sin -- 8. Humanity: Predestination, Merit, and Grace -- 9. …”
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Duns Scotus by Cross, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Humanity: Body, Soul, and Immortality -- 7. Humanity: Freedom, Ethics, and Sin -- 8. Humanity: Predestination, Merit, and Grace -- 9. …”
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Metaphysics and the good themes from the philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams /

Table of Contents: “…Jorgensen -- A philosophical autobiography / Robert Merrihew Adams -- Yet another anti-molinist argument / Dean Zimmerman -- The contingency of existence / Michael Nelson -- Consciousness and introspective inaccuracy / Derk Pereboom -- Kant on apriority and the spontaneity of cognition / Houston Smit -- Moral necessity in Leibniz's account of human freedom / R. C. Sleigh, Jr -- Leibniz on final causation / Marleen Rozemond -- Does efficient causation presuppose final causation? …”
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Metaphysics and the good themes from the philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams /

Table of Contents: “…Jorgensen -- A philosophical autobiography / Robert Merrihew Adams -- Yet another anti-molinist argument / Dean Zimmerman -- The contingency of existence / Michael Nelson -- Consciousness and introspective inaccuracy / Derk Pereboom -- Kant on apriority and the spontaneity of cognition / Houston Smit -- Moral necessity in Leibniz's account of human freedom / R. C. Sleigh, Jr -- Leibniz on final causation / Marleen Rozemond -- Does efficient causation presuppose final causation? …”
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Animals and agency an interdisciplinary exploration /

Table of Contents: “…McFarland -- Speaking through animals -- No human hand : the ourang-outang in Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Stephanie Rowe -- Sled dogs of the American North : on masculinity, whiteness, and human freedom / Rebecca Onion -- The slave whisperer rides the frontier : horseface minstrelsy in the western / J.J. …”
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Animals and agency an interdisciplinary exploration /

Table of Contents: “…McFarland -- Speaking through animals -- No human hand : the ourang-outang in Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Stephanie Rowe -- Sled dogs of the American North : on masculinity, whiteness, and human freedom / Rebecca Onion -- The slave whisperer rides the frontier : horseface minstrelsy in the western / J.J. …”
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Indian philosophy in English from renaissance to independence /

Table of Contents: “…Suryanarayana Sastri, "Advaita, causality and human freedom" (1940) -- A.C. Mukerji, "Śaṅkara's theory of consciousness" (1937) -- V.S. …”
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Indian philosophy in English from renaissance to independence /

Table of Contents: “…Suryanarayana Sastri, "Advaita, causality and human freedom" (1940) -- A.C. Mukerji, "Śaṅkara's theory of consciousness" (1937) -- V.S. …”
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Philosophy of religion : thinking about faith / by Evans, C. Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Concepts of God ; The theistic concept of God ; A case study : divine foreknowledge and human freedom ; The problem of religious language ; Natural theology ; Proofs of God's existence -- Classical arguments for God's existence. …”
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Philosophy of religion : thinking about faith / by Evans, C. Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Concepts of God ; The theistic concept of God ; A case study : divine foreknowledge and human freedom ; The problem of religious language ; Natural theology ; Proofs of God's existence -- Classical arguments for God's existence. …”
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