- Description
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Summary
- "Freedom of choice is the subject. "How dare you!" challenged Greta Thunberg. The members of the Climate Summit had freedom of choice to act on the scientific evidence she presented rather than on personal desire. What is the difference between acting on desire and acting on what you prefer because of scientific acceptance? There is a form of preference that is an ultimate explanation of choice. I call it a power preference. It is a preference that loops back on to itself, a fixed-point vector, and suffices to explain human agency. The power preference includes scientific explanation and is compatible with determinism"--
- Uniform Title
- Ultimate freedom (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Ultimate freedom (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Preference, reason and agency -- Freedom of choice: source and leeway -- Reason, preference and freedom --
- ISBN
- 9780197695036
- LCCN
- 2023011395
- OCLC
- ssj0002881121
- Author
Lehrer, Keith.
- Title
Ultimate freedom [electronic resource] / by Keith Lehrer.
- Imprint
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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