Freedom and Belief
A Philosophy book. You can do as you please, but you cant please as you please: Bertrand Russells less formal version of...
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...
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- Pages: 324 pages
- ISBN: 9780199247493 / 199247498
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One of the most difficult books I've ever read: difficult not because I didn't understand it, but rather because I did. You can do as you please, but you cant please as you please: Bertrand Russells less formal version of Strawsons argument for the impossibility of free will. I expected a book-length exposition of this argument but in fact its wrapped up early on as a jumping-off point for why and how we nevertheless find it hard to discount free will...
