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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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An Original and Well Reasoned View
Wolf's book, now over ten years old, is a standout in recent literature on free will. She approaches the question from the angle of autonomy rather than the usual determinism angel. This is a refreshing and insightful approach to the long standing problem, not least because of how she clearly relates the former problem to the latter. Her own theory, the 'Reason...
Published on February 13, 2003 by Thomas Evans
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a paean to "goodness"...
Only a philosopher ineluctably wed to rationalism could conceive of a title like FREEDOM WITHIN REASON without intending irony. I just love it when philosophers, comfortable in their belief of self-superiority, make statements like, "...and so we see that ordinary people are perhaps justified in thinking that they can make up their own minds about important moral...
Published on January 21, 2004
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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An Original and Well Reasoned View,
By Thomas Evans (NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Freedom within Reason (Paperback)
Wolf's book, now over ten years old, is a standout in recent literature on free will. She approaches the question from the angle of autonomy rather than the usual determinism angel. This is a refreshing and insightful approach to the long standing problem, not least because of how she clearly relates the former problem to the latter.Her own theory, the 'Reason View,' has much to recomend it. I am inclined towards suggesting that it makes a valuable addition to what she calls the 'Real Self Views' (that of Watson, Neely, often Frankfurt and others) rather than the stronger claim that she has disproved those other theories and put in their place a new theory, which she seems to suggest. And her demolition of the incompatibilist autonomous view is complete. Excellent and thought-provoking philosophy
2 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
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a paean to "goodness"...,
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This review is from: Freedom Within Reason (Hardcover)
Only a philosopher ineluctably wed to rationalism could conceive of a title like FREEDOM WITHIN REASON without intending irony. I just love it when philosophers, comfortable in their belief of self-superiority, make statements like, "...and so we see that ordinary people are perhaps justified in thinking that they can make up their own minds about important moral issues..." (paraphrasing). Rehashed ethical humanism, old fish.
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Freedom within Reason by Susan R. Wolf (Paperback - October 21, 1993)
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