Consciousness and Freedom - The Inseparability of Thinking and Doing

This book explores the nature of human freedom, or what Crosby calls genuine freedom. He argues at length for the crucial importance of genuine freedom for responsible and meaningful human life and takes extended issue, on practical as well as theoretical grounds, with those who argue for the compatibility of freedom with causal determinism.

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1 Genuine Freedom
Chapter 2 Objective Chance
Chapter 3 Externalism and Internalism
Chapter 4 Downward Causation
Chapter 5 The Integral Self
Chapter 6 Human Freedom and the Fourth Plateau
Chapter 7 Consciousness and Freedom
Notes
Works Cited

About the author

By Donald A. Crosby

Summary

This book explores the nature of human freedom, or what Crosby calls genuine freedom. He argues at length for the crucial importance of genuine freedom for responsible and meaningful human life and takes extended issue, on practical as well as theoretical grounds, with those who argue for the compatibility of freedom with causal determinism.

Product details

• Authors: Donald A Crosby, Donald A. Crosby
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781498538909
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3890-9
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works