Free Will & Determinism

From the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no...

We make choices all the time - about trivial matters, about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539074Author Michael SchrageFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism-translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can...

WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS?If you could upload all of your memories into a machine, would that machine be you? Is it possible we're all already artificial intelligences, living inside a simulation?These sound like questions from a...

The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free will during the past 50 years, as well as some notable...

Your journey begins. The road before you is smooth and straight. You walk for some time, recalling your experiences that call into question the deep realities of life. Up ahead, you can see the road branching in three directions. . .In Why Is There...

Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.About the AuthorAfter receiving a PhD in cultural anthropology from Syracuse University, Dr. Ernest Becker (1924-1974) taught at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623173111Author Sky Nelson-IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060904470Author Allen WheelisFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

From a scientific and philosophical point of view, there is arguably no phenomenon as intractable as the origin and nature of consciousness. This volume provides a comprehensive account of the Kabbalistic understanding of consciousness adduced from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781798285466Author Ibn KathirFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486831664Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision...

From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled...

'It's Schopenhauer and the will. It's Plato, it's Hume, Baudrillard and the concept of the Nietzschean superman!' Keanu Reeves on The MatrixThe Philosopher at the End of the Universe allows anyone to understand basic philosophical concepts from the...

A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging what many scientists and scientifically minded philosophers believe.Philosophers have argued about the nature and the very existence of free will for centuries...

For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Ed believed that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident at the...

In this first English translation of an important work, a leading phenomenologist unfolds the ideas of memory and loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, as he opens a phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. He stands with Levinas,...

The book is intended as a reader-friendly introduction to issues in the philosophy of mind, including mental-physical causal interaction, computational models of thought, the relation minds bear to brains, and assorted -isms: behaviorism, dualism,...

A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism. For determinism is threatened just as surely by the existence of powers which can be unproblematically...

An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment"P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper "Freedom and Resentment" is one of the most influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394704371Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453621738Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593760076Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 487g

Schelling, Freud, and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis provides a long-overdue dialogue between two seminal thinkers, Schelling and Freud. Through a sustained reading of the sublime, mythology, the uncanny, and freedom, this book provokes...

You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? "Now" has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. In Now, eminent physicist Richard A. Muller takes up the challenge. He begins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593435892Author Brittany PolatFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ZeitgeistPublisher Random House USA Inc

Wes Furlotte critically evaluates Hegel's philosophy of human freedom in terms of his often-disregarded conception of nature. In doing so, he gives us a new portrait of Hegel's final system that is surprisingly relevant for our contemporary world,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911576235Author Jeremy BenthamFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 830g

A different kind of hope for living in these turbulent times Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever,...

Scholars are struggling to come to grips with the picture of human agency being pieced together by researchers in the biosciences. This volume aims at providing philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and legal theorists with an opportunity to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534383Author Daniel C. DennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

The question of free will has preoccupied philosophers for millennia. In recent years the debate has been reinvigorated by the findings of neuroscience and, for some, the notion that we have free will has finally been laid to rest. Not so, says Raymond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619490949Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359490929Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat HardbackPage Count 54Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010257Author Kyle FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Can robots perform actions, make decisions, collaborate with humans, be our friends, perhaps fall in love, or potentially harm us? Even before these things truly happen, ethical and philosophical questions already arise. The reason is that we humans have...

Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and...