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The author examines the idea of free will, arguing that consideration of human rationality and consciousness together gives us free will.

The subject of this book is the controversy—one of the oldest in philosophy—about whether it is possible to have freedom in the face of universal causal det

"In the second half of the book, Searle applies his theory of social reality to the problem of political power, explaining the role of language in the formation

In recent decades, with advances in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences, the idea that patterns of human behavior may ultimately be due to factors beyo

A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psych