https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Freedom-Beyond-Metaphysics https://booksandideas.net/Freedom-Beyond-Metaphysics 2024-04-18T08:35:19Z text/html en Jean-Pascal Anfray Philosophy responsibility freedom causality Cairn.info <p>Are we free, or are our actions determined by natural causes? The problem thus posed is a metaphysical construct: From late antiquity onwards, the authentic meaning of freedom as a principle of action has been obscured by the invention of free will and the excessive importance given to the concept of the will.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Uchronia https://booksandideas.net/Uchronia 2019-01-10T07:00:00Z text/html en Emmanuelle Loyer History method Institut français counterfactual causality <p>Counterfactual history is a matter of ‘what ifs'. What if the Allies had lost the Second World War? What if there had been no transatlantic slave trade? Two French historians analyse the intellectual merits of this use of the past, long established in the Anglo-American world.</p>