Free Will Determinism category: 515 books
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.
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 Anthony Kenny
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This reissue was first published in 1978. Anthony Kenny, one of the most distinguished philosophers in England, explores the notion of responsibility and the precise place of the mental element in criminal actions. Bringing the insights of recent philosophy of mind to bear on contemporary developments...
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...
Programmed Sheep
Do You Control Your Mind or does Somebody Else Control It for You?
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Programmed Sheep is an adult comedy built on my observation that humans all behave like sheep. Therefore, we are treated as such by government, politicians, employers, and the police, who all control our lives.----We are being programmed to think like they want us to think, taking away our free will,...
Models.Behaving.Badly.
Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Now in paperback, “a compelling, accessible, and provocative piece of work that forces us to question many of our assumptions” (Gillian Tett, author of Fool’s Gold).
Quants, physicists working on Wall Street as quantitative analysts, have been widely blamed for triggering financial crises...
by Electric Angel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
For the past 60 years, there have been a lot of desperate people on the planet who claim to be targeted by a sinister government plot to torture and harass them. These people are known as Targeted Individuals (TIs).
Targeted Individuals claim to hear disembodied voices in their heads and experience...