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Freedom and Belief

  • Paperback
  • 336 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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For readers questioning the concept of free will

Addresses confusion over moral responsibility beliefs

You will gain clarity on your beliefs about freedom

Explore the challenging ideas of free will and moral responsibility in Galen Strawson's insightful book.

This is a revised and updated edition of Galen Strawson's groundbreaking first book, where he argues that there is a fundamental sense in which there is no such thing as free will or true moral responsibility (as this is ordinarily understood). This conclusion is very hard to accept. On the whole we continue to believe firmly both that we have free will and that we are truly morally responsible for what we do. Strawson devotes much of the book to an attempt to explain why this is so. He examines various aspects of the 'cognitive phenomenology' of freedom - the nature, causes, and consequences of our deep commitment to belief in freedom. In particular, he considers at length a number of problems that are raised by the suggestion that, if freedom were possible, believing oneself to be a free agent would be a necessary condition of being a free agent.
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  • Title

    Freedom and Belief

  • Author

    Galen Strawson

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    October 2010

  • Edition

    Revised edition

  • Weight

    477g

  • Page Count

    336

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199247509

  • ISBN-10

    0199247501

  • Eden Code

    4563586

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