Psychology of freedom (Record no. 215865)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780521038225
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Classification number 128.3 PIN
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Personal name "Pink, Thomas"
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Title Psychology of freedom
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge university press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2007
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Extent 284p.
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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.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Free will and determinism
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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

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