Psychology of freedom (Record no. 215865)
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780521038225 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 128.3 PIN |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | "Pink, Thomas" |
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Psychology of freedom |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge university press |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2007 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 284p. |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
Unit of pricing | PND |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | 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. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Free will and determinism |
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Koha item type | Books |
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Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2020-02-08 | 128.3 PIN | 133571 | 2020-02-08 | 2020-02-08 | Books |