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Motivation and Agency
Alfred R. Mele
Paperback - $65.95
What place does motivation have in the lives of intelligent agents? Mele's answer is sensitive to the concerns of philosophers of mind and moral philosophers and informed by empirical work. He offers a distinctive, comprehensive, attractive view of h ...
The Matter of Chance
D. H. Mellor
Paperback - $92.95
Statistical techniques and theories have become widely applied in the physical, biological and social sciences. The enormous increase in their scope and complexity has led to much philosophical discussion of their significance, and of the meaning in ...
Making a Business Woman
Anne Shannon Monroe
Paperback - $48.95
This book tells the tale of a woman, tired of being poor, who goes to the big city to make her fortune. We learn of her trials and tribulations trying to find a job, her failures and finally her successes in advertising. She goes into business for he ...
Will and World : A Study in Metaphysics
N. M. L. Nathan
Hardcover - $380.95
Dr. Nathan shows how these conflicts can be systematically thought through, and proposes their resolution as a general philosophical objective. He then studies in detail a set of interrelated oppositions about the freedom and the reality of the will. ...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Considered by many to be the most important philosopher of modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche influenced twentieth-century ideas and culture more than almost any other thinker. His best-known book, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"— published in four par ...
Agents, Causes, and Events : Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will
Timothy OConnor
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Agents, Causes, and Events : Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will
Timothy OConnor
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Many philosophers are persuaded by familiar arguments that free will is incompatible with causal determinism. Yet, notoriously, past attempts to articulate how the right type of indeterminism might secure the capacity for autonomous action have gener ...