Book Review: van Inwagen, Peter. Thinking about Free Will [Book Review]

Manuscrito 42 (1):211-218 (2019)
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In this review, I discuss some aspects of van Inwagen’s insights with respect to the notions of free will and determinism. My main focus is on the author’s formulation of the free will problem.

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10.1590/0100-6045.2019.v42n1.pm

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Pedro Merlussi
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