Free will and the human sciences in Britain, 1870-1910

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Free will and the human sciences in Britain, 1870-1910

by Roger Smith

(Science and culture in the nineteenth century, 17)

Pickering & Chatto, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Smith takes an in-depth look at the question of free will through the prism of different disciplines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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1 Belief in Free Will: What Was at Stake? 2 Physiology and Mind in the 1870s 3 Shaping the Science of Psychology 4 Volition and Mental Activity 5 Causation and Effort 6 The Moral Agent 7 History and Society 8 The Legacy

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