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March 18, 2009

History of Free Will

Hi everyone,

Long time listener, first time caller. 

I was wondering if anyone knows of a good book on the history of free will.  I'm thinking of something that takes you from the ancients (Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans) through the Medievals (Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Ockham, etc) and the moderns to Kant or beyond.  I had the thought the other day that I've never seen a collection of essays introducing or discussing the history of this philosophical area.  I found this surprising given that there is no shortage of "______ from Plato to Kant" collections generally.  Some quick research yielded these two books:

Free Will: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction by Ilham Dilman
The Will and Human Action: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Thomas Pink

Does anyone have any other recommendations? 

Posted by Per Milam on March 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM | | Comments (5)