Readership: Scholars and advanced students of philosophy
Galen Strawson, University of Reading
Review(s) from previous edition"An engaging and challenging book that should be studies by anyone commited to the topic of freedom. - John Christman, Mind
"A serious and intelligent work, written in an accessible style, on one of the hardest problems there is." - Thomas Nagel, London Review of Books
"Large, intricately argued and challenging, full of subtle argumentation and intriguing examples...his conclusions are often novel and challenging to philosophical (and non-philosophical) orthodoxy" - John Martin Fischer, Times Literary Supplement
"This is an honest and challenging work, full of subtle arguments and imaginiative examples, and should be read by anyone interested in philosophical problems about human freedom." - Robert Kane, International Philosophical Quarterly
PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION (2010) PREFACE 1: Introduction 2: Libertarianism, Action, and Self-determination 3: Kant and Commitment 4: Commitment, Illusion, and Truth 5: Non-rational Commitment: A View of Freedom 6: Phenomenology, Commitment, and What Might Happen 7: Objectivism: Preliminaries 8: Choice 9: Self-consciousness 10: Evidence and Independence 11: Contravention and Convention 12: The Spectator Subject and Integration 13: The Natural Epictetans 14: The Experience of Ability to Choose 15: Subjectivism and Experience of Freedom 16: Antinomy and Truth APPENDICES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
