Free Will category: 515 books
The Philosophy of Freedom
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
'The Philosophy of Freedom' is Rudolf Steiner's most important work. In it he explains the two aspects of free will: freedom of thought and freedom of action. This landmark book explores free will from a completely fresh and unique perspective. "If an idea is to become action, man must first...
The Self Beyond Itself
An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
“Intertwines history, philosophy, and science . . . A powerful challenge to conventional notions of individual responsibility” (Publishers Weekly).
Few concepts are more unshakable in our culture than free will, the idea that individuals are fundamentally in control of the decisions they...
by Mark Balaguer
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
An argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events.
Time and Free Will
An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Bergson argues for free will by showing that the arguments against it come from a confusion of different conceptions of time. As opposed to physicists' idea of measurable time, life is perceived in human experience as a continuous and immeasurable flow rather than as a succession of marked-off states of consciousness.
by Daniel M. Wegner
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2003
A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism.
Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel...
A Minimal Libertarianism
Free Will and the Promise of Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
In this book, Christopher Evan Franklin develops and defends a novel version of event-causal libertarianism. This view is a combination of libertarianism--the view that humans sometimes act freely and that those actions are the causal upshots of nondeterministic processes--and agency reductionism--the...
How to Be Free
An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A superb new edition of Epictetus’s famed handbook on Stoicism—translated by one of the world’s leading authorities on Stoic philosophy
Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55–135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even...
by Nik Venture
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
If you are taking your life too seriously: This is your antidote.
What would you think if I told you that you didn’t even have free will?
Although that sounds ludicrous, it is a well-established branch of philosophy known as determinism. But it isn't a semantic position based on esoteric...
by Austin P. Torney
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Free. Color Illustrated. Is the will free, not depending on anything, or fixed, depending on something, such as who one has become? This is not to say that the will is not dynamic, one fixed state being able to progress to another fixed state, via learning.
by Daniel C. Dennett
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers “yes!” Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly...
Fate, Time, and Language
An Essay on Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world,...
Relative Justice
Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
When can we be morally responsible for our behavior? Is it fair to blame people for actions that are determined by heredity and environment? Can we be responsible for the actions of relatives or members of our community? In this provocative book, Tamler Sommers concludes that there are no objectively...
Brainstorms
Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
An anniversary edition of a classic in cognitive science, with a new introduction by the author.
When Brainstorms was published in 1978, the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science was just emerging. Daniel Dennett was a young scholar who wanted to get philosophers out of their armchairs—and...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1988
The age-old question of free will is still a mystery to most people today. Even religious and philosophical circles have difficulty reconciling the concepts of morality, destiny, karma, and necessity with true freedom. Steiner illuminates questions of freedom and necessity, and guilt and innocence, by...