Donald A. Crosby

Consciousness and Freedom (eBook, ePUB)

The Inseparability of Thinking and Doing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Questions relating to human freedom cannot be separated from questions relating to human consciousness. The two are intricately entwined, and neither can be understood apart from the other. There is a widespread assumption today that we can understand the nature of human freedom even though there is an equally widespread acknowledgment that we have a lot yet to learn about the nature of human consciousness and its relations to the human body. This separation of the two issues is false. Attempts to prove it have failed and will continue to fail so long as the concept of freedom in its intimate connections with the nature of consciousness is not properly understood. The kind of genuine freedom of thought and action defended in this book lies at the heart of responsible outlooks on our individual and social lives, our hopes for the future, the whole of our history as human beings, and our relations to the natural world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498538916
• Artikelnr.: 49994227

Autorenporträt

Donald A. Crosby is professor of philosophy emeritus at Colorado State University.

Inhaltsangabe

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