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Free Will & Determinism

  • Healing Or Stealingby Jean-Marie Abgrall

    Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95

    Abgrall is one of the world's top experts on cults and the pseudo health movements that prey upon people in need. A practicing psychiatrist and criminologist, he says "so-called alternative medicine sometimes crosses the line and becomes pure crookery." A more...

  • Choice Theoryby Michael Allingham

    Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 9.99

    This title explores what it means to be rational in a variety of contexts, from personal decisions to those affecting large groups of people. It introduces ideas from economics, philosophy, and other areas, showing how the theory applies to particular situations such as gambling and the allocation of resources. more...

  • Merit, Meaning, and Human Bondageby Nomy Arpaly

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 42.00

    Perhaps everything we think, feel, and do is determined, and humans--like stones or clouds--are slaves to the laws of nature. Would that be a terrible state? Philosophers who take the incompatibilist position think so, arguing that a deterministic world would be one without moral responsibility and perhaps without true love, meaningful art, and real... more...

  • Two Centuries of Local Autonomyby Jürgen G. Backhaus

    Springer 2012; US$ 94.99

    One of the last Prussian Reforms during the Napoleonic Era was the constitution of local autonomy for the cities. Proof of its lasting importance is that it was the cities that carried out the deficit-based employment policies of the early 1930s also had to carry the burden of a democratic reconstitution of Germany in the postwar period. After the... more...

  • Hume's Difficultyby Donald L.M. Baxter

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95

    In this volume--the first, focused study of Hume on time and identity--Baxter focuses on Hume?s treatment of the concept of numerical identity, which is central to Hume's famous discussions of the external world and personal identity. Hume raises a long unappreciated, and still unresolved, difficulty with the concept of identity: how to represent... more...

  • A Theory of Freedomby Stanley I. Benn

    Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 53.00

    This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosophy of action, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. more...

  • Objectivism in One Lessonby Andrew Bernstein

    Hamilton Books 2008; US$ 33.99

    For the millions of readers who love Ayn Rand's novels and who seek to understand her revolutionary philosophy of Objectivism, there has not been available a simple and concise introduction to her thought. Objectivism in One Lesson is that book. more...

  • Theorie der praktischen Freiheitby Christoph Binkelmann

    De Gruyter 2007; US$ 182.00

    This study offers a detailed systematic comparison of Fichte?s and Hegel?s philosophies with regard to their conceptions of freedom. It explains and compares the place of practical freedom within the two thinkers? overarching systems of ethical, legal, and political philosophy. In the process, it shows not only Hegel?s debt to Fichte but also the essential... more...

  • Freedom and Responsibilityby Hilary Bok

    Princeton University Press 1998; US$ 28.95

    Can we reconcile the idea that we are free and responsible agents with the idea that what we do is determined according to natural laws? For centuries, philosophers have tried in different ways to show that we can. Hilary Bok takes a fresh approach here, as she seeks to show that the two ideas are compatible by drawing on the distinction between practical... more...

  • Selbstachtungby Falk Bornmüller

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 112.00

    Kant?s rationale for making self-respect an immediately clear precondition for action grounded in freedom is in need of thoroughgoing revision, since it fails to consider the phenomenological content and the actual origin of reflexive self-reference. On the basis of a history of the concept and a systematic reconstruction of affirmative relations to... more...