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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521038227
ISBN-139780521038225
eBay Product ID (ePID)59937785
Product Key Features
Number of Pages296 Pages
Publication NamePsychology of Freedom
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
SubjectDecision-Making & Problem Solving, Free Will & Determinism, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Education
AuthorThomas Pink
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight15.7 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.9 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews"...an original and interesting book. Pink...offers a comprehensive, unified theory of a number of phenomena. His work should promote inquiry into some central (and some neglected) issues concerning freedom, action, decision, and practical rationality." Randolph Clarke, The Philosophical Review, "Pink's writing is complex, yet clear and crisp. He explains his theory of the will with precision and depth. His overall strategy is coherent and his argumentation is sophisticated." Clifford Williams, Philosophy in Review
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal123.5
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Agency and the will; 2. Scepticism about second-order agency; 3. Decision-making and freedom; 4. The psychologising conception of freedom; 5. Decision rationality and action rationality; 6. Decision-making and teleology; 7. The regress argument; 8. In defence of the action model; 9. The special-purpose agency of the will; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisThis book considers our freedom of action, and what sort of mind, or psychology, that freedom requires. It argues that our freedom of action depends on our being able to decide freely which actions we shall perform; in other words, to have freedom of action, we need a free will. It shows how our decisions to act are actions themselves, but with the special function of ensuring the rationality of the actions that they explain. The book seeks to resolve a range of problems about the nature both of action and rationality., 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., This 1996 book considers our freedom of action, and what sort of mind, or psychology, that freedom requires. It argues that our freedom of action depends on our being able to decide freely which actions we shall perform. The book seeks to resolve a range of problems about the nature of both action and rationality.
LC Classification NumberBJ1461 .P55 1996
