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Book cover for Timothy OConnor: Persons & Causes

Persons & Causes : The Metaphysics of Free Will

Timothy OConnor
Paperback - $54.95

This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reducti ...

Book cover for Timothy OConnor: Persons and Causes

Persons and Causes : The Metaphysics of Free Will

Timothy OConnor
Hardcover - $145.95

This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reducti ...

Book cover for Margaret J. Osler: Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy

Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy

Margaret J. Osler
Paperback - $69.95

The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions. Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on ...

Book cover for George Herbert Palmer: The Problem of Freedom

The Problem of Freedom

George Herbert Palmer
Paperback - $74.95



Book cover for David Pears: Motivated Irrationality

Motivated Irrationality

David Pears
Hardcover - $65.95



Book cover for Derk Pereboom: Living Without Free Will

Living Without Free Will

Derk Pereboom
Paperback - $96.95

In Living Without Free Will, Derk Pereboom argues that our best scientific theories indeed have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform, and that because of this, we are not morally responsible for any of ...

Book cover for Derk Pereboom: Living Without Free Will

Living Without Free Will

Derk Pereboom
Hardcover - $170.95

In Living Without Free Will, Derk Pereboom argues that our best scientific theories indeed have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform, and that because of this, we are not morally responsible for any of ...

Book cover for Thomas Pink: Free Will

Free Will : A Very Short Introduction

Thomas Pink
Paperback - $20.95

Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of choices: some trivial, others so consequential that they change the course of one's life, or even the course of history. But are these choices really free, or are we compelled to act the way we do b ...

Book cover for Thomas Pink: The Psychology of Freedom

The Psychology of Freedom

Thomas Pink
Paperback - $103.95

This book considers our freedom of action, and what sort of mind, or psychology, that freedom requires. It argues that our freedom of action depends on our being able to decide freely which actions we shall perform; in other words, to have freedom of ...

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