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The Psychology of Freedom

  • Hardback
  • 296 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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For those seeking deeper insights into free will

Challenges misconceptions about decision-making

You will understand your capacity for rational choices

The Psychology of Freedom explores the nature of free will and decision-making.

This 1996 book presents an alternative theory of the will - of our capacity for decision making. The book argues that taking a decision to act is something we do, and do freely - as much an action as the actions which our decisions explain - and that our freedom of action depends on this capacity for free decision-making. But decision-making is no ordinary action. Decisions to act also have a special executive function, that of ensuring the rationality of the further actions which they explain. This executive function makes decision-making an action importantly unlike any other, with its own distinctive rationality. Pink's highly persuasive study uses this theory of the will to provide accounts of freedom, action and rational choice. The author argues that, in a tradition that runs from Hobbes to Davidson and Frankfurt, Anglo-American philosophy has misrepresented the common-sense psychology of our freedom and action - a psychology which this book now presents and defends.
The Psychology of Freedom and Free Will
Free WillThe Psychology of Freedom

  • Title

    The Psychology of Freedom

  • Author

    Thomas Pink

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    July 1996

  • Weight

    500g

  • Page Count

    296

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521555043

  • ISBN-10

    0521555043

  • Eden Code

    4575222

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