The Psychology of Freedom

by Thomas Pink

Book Overview

This 1996 book presents an alternative theory of the will - of our capacity for decision making. The book argues that taking a decision to act is something we do, and do freely - as much an action as the actions which our decisions explain - and that our freedom of action depends on this capacity for free decision-making. But decision-making is no ordinary action. Decisions to act also have a special executive function, that of ensuring the rationality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521555043
• ISBN13: 9780521555043
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"