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Free will and luck.
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ISBN: 9780195305043 0195305043 0199786011 9786610559312 0198041519 1280559314 1435618513 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

The philosophy of action
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ISBN: 0198751753 Year: 1997 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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Motivation and agency
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ISBN: 019515617X 019983346X 0195189523 9786610502448 1280502444 0198035497 1423784677 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

Irrationality : an essay on akrasia, self-deception and self-control
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ISBN: 0195080017 Year: 1987 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,

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Free : why science hasn't disproved free will
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ISBN: 0199371644 0190252421 0199371636 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Does free will exist? The question has fueled heated debates spanning from philosophy to psychology and religion. The answer has major implications, and the stakes are high. To put it in the simple terms that have come to dominate these debates, if we are free to make our own decisions, we are accountable for what we do, and if we aren't free, we're off the hook. There are neuroscientists who claim that our decisions are made unconsciously and are therefore outside of our control and social psychologists who argue that myriad imperceptible factors influence even our minor decisions to the exte


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Effective intentions : the power of conscious will.
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ISBN: 9780195384260 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Backsliding : understanding weakness of will.
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ISBN: 9780199896134 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Oxford university press

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Irrationality : an essay on akrasia, self-deception, and self-control
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ISBN: 0195359879 1423735609 9781423735601 1280526602 9781280526602 9780195080018 0195080017 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press,

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The author demonstrates that certain forms of irrationality - incontinent action and self-deception - which many philosophers have rejected as being logically or psychologically impossible, are indeed possible.

Autonomous agents : from self-control to autonomy
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ISBN: 1280450983 9786610450985 0198025475 0585363900 9780585363905 9780199869091 019986909X 0195094549 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press

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Alfred Mele examines the concept of self-control on its terms, followed by an examination of its bearing on one's actions, beliefs, and emotions. He considers how, by understanding self-control, man can shed light on autonomous behaviour.

Springs of action : understanding intentional behavior
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ISBN: 1280533471 0195344979 0585366993 9780585366999 019507114X 9780195071146 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Tackling some central problems in the philosophy of action, Mele constructs an explanatory model for intentional behavior, locating the place and significance of such mental phenomena as beliefs, desires, reason, and intentions in the etiology of intentional action. Part One comprises a comprehensive examination of the standard treatments of the relations between desires, beliefs, and actions. In Part Two, Mele goes on to develop a subtle and well-defended view that the motivational role of intentions is of a different sort from that of beliefs and desires. Mele, also offers a provocative expl

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