TY - BOOK ID - 2620081 TI - The psychology of freedom PY - 1996 SN - 0521555043 0521038227 0511520077 0511821484 PB - New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Besluitvorming KW - Besluitvormingsanalyse KW - Besluitvormingsprocessen KW - Compatibilism KW - Deciding KW - Decision analysis KW - Decision making KW - Decision processes KW - Decision-making KW - Determinism and free will KW - Determinism and indeterminism KW - Determinisme en indeterminisme KW - Décision [Prise de ] KW - Décision [Théorie de la ] KW - Déterminisme et indéterminisme KW - Free agency KW - Free will and determinism KW - Freedom and determinism KW - Freedom of the will KW - Indeterminism KW - Indeterminisme KW - Liberty of the will KW - Libre arbitre et déterminisme KW - Making decisions KW - Management decisions KW - Management--Beslissingen KW - Management--Besluitvorming KW - Management--Decision making KW - Prise de décision KW - Théorie de la décision KW - Vrije wil KW - Vrije wil en determinisme KW - Vrijheid van de wil KW - Wilsvrijheid KW - Free will and determinism. KW - Decision making. KW - Decision (Psychology) KW - Management KW - Choice (Psychology) KW - Problem solving KW - Determinism (Philosophy) KW - Libre arbitre et déterminisme KW - Prise de décision KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2620081 AB - 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 of the further actions which they explain. This executive function makes decision-making an action importantly unlike any other, with its own distinctive rationality. Pink's highly persuasive study uses this theory of the will to provide accounts of freedom, action and rational choice. The author argues that, in a tradition that runs from Hobbes to Davidson and Frankfurt, Anglo-American philosophy has misrepresented the common-sense psychology of our freedom and action - a psychology which this book now presents and defends. ER -