Lexington Books
Pages: 190
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66691-948-6 • Hardback • May 2023 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-66691-949-3 • eBook • April 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
J. Christopher Maloney is professor emeritus of philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Arizona.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Determinism and Compatibilism Redux
Chapter 2. The Logic of ‘Almost’
Chapter 3. Lessons, Charity, and Freedom’s Proliferation
Chapter 4. Akratic Compatibilism Indicted but Acquitted
J. Christopher Maloney has written a book that is at once probing and inventive, confronting the need to understand how best to comprehend the psychology of human decision-making and action, and the nature of the self-conscious mind. It is humble but daring, fluid yet scholarly, offering a lucid and penetrating analysis of the self-determining mind.
— George Graham, author of The Disordered Mind (2021)
This is a highly original defense of a version of compatibilism. It is an extraordinary tour de force through a huge literature that is much broader than the analytic discussions of free will, and the connections Maloney forges between the narrower and broader contexts are illuminating. Highly recommended!
— John Fischer, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside