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Self-Defeat Is Not So Frequent*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Tom Settle
Affiliation:
University of Guelph

Abstract

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Interventions
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1987

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References

1 Knaster, Stephen M., “How the Self-Defeating Argument Against Determinism Defeats Itself, Dialogue 25/2 (Summer 1986), 239244CrossRefGoogle Scholar. References in the text are to this paper.

2 Jordan, James, “Determinism's Dilemma”, The Review of Metaphysics 23/1 (1969), 4866Google Scholar.

3 Ayer, A. J., The Concept of the Person (London: MacMillan, 1963), 266267CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Jordan, “Determinism's Dilemma”, 60–63.

5 Ibid., 54.

7 See my “Presuppositions of Propensity Theories of Probability”, in Maxwell, G., Anderston, R. M. Jr, eds., Induction, Probability, and Confirmation (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1982)Google Scholar.

8 See further my “Human Freedom and 1568 Versions of Determinism and Indeterminism”, in Bunge, M., ed., The Methodological Unity of Science (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1975), 245264;Google ScholarIndeterminism Undermines Science”, Fundamenta Scientiae 3/1 (1973), 103112Google Scholar.