De La Mettrie's Ghost
The Story Of Decisions
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This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roman drama and beyond, it is a compelling hunt for the nature of free will.
Keywords
21st century; Age of Enlightenment; drama; drawing; enlightenment; free will; memory; nature; philosophy; physics; politics; prose; style; Victorian eraDOI
10.1007/978-0-230-55221-0ISBN
9780230552210, 9780230552210Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
New York, 2005Imprint
Palgrave MacmillanSeries
Macmillan Science,Classification
Philosophy of mind
History of science
Philosophy of science
Interdisciplinary studies
Popular science