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
Galen Strawson is Professor of Philosophy at Reading University,
UK, and a Regular Visitor at CUNY Graduate Center, New York. Prior
to that he was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at CUNY
Graduate Center, New York (2004-07); Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy
at Jesus College, Oxford (1987-2000). He has also held visiting
positions at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian
National University (1993), New York University (1997), and Rutgers
University
(2000). Strawson received his degrees from the universities of
Cambridge and Oxford and studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
(rue d'Ulm) and the Sorbonne (Paris I, 1977-8).
`Review 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
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