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1	Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets more books like this by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, PH.D., MBA add to wishlist Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skillQthe world of tradingQ"Fooled by Randomness" is a captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in life. Written in an entertaining and narrative style, this instant classic has been selected by Amazon.com and the "Financial Times" as one of ... see all copies from £6.18! new only from £6.18! \| signed copies
2	Freedom Evolves more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist FREEDOM EVOLVES charts the compatibility that can exist between free will and determinism. Dennett, author of CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED and DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA, continues his philosophical inquiry into the workings of the mind and how it negotiates the realms of choice and scientific necessity. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Bondage of the Will more books like this by Martin Luther add to wishlist Written in 1525 in response to the writings of Erasmus, "The Bondage of the Will" conveys Luther's beliefs on the issue of free will during the Protestant Reformation. Because of the fall of man, he debates with Erasmus on whether or not human beings are free to decide on good or evil. He asserts in this well written and uniquely styled work that ... see all copies from £7.26! new only from £7.95! \| first editions
4	The Taming of Chance more books like this by Ian Hacking, Quentin Skinner (Editor), James Tully (Editor) add to wishlist In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as ... see all copies from £11.11! new only from £16.24! \| first editions
5	Reformed Doctrine of Predestination more books like this by Loraine Boettner add to wishlist One of the 20th-century's most reasoned explanations of the sovereignty of God and the Reformed interpretation of salvation. "Whoever really wants to know what Calvinism teaches cannot do better than to read this book from cover to cover".--United Presbyterian magazine. see all copies from £6.22! new only from £8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Freedom of the Will more books like this by Jonathan Edwards add to wishlist This inaugural volume in "The Works of Jonathan Edwards" is his major contribution to theology and stands as a leading document on Calvinist thought. Mr. Ramsey's introduction provides a fresh analysis of Edwards' theological position, includes a study of his life and the intellectual issues in the America of his time, and examines the problem of ... see all copies from £11.14! new only from £12.09! \| first editions
7	Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Change in the Markets and in Life more books like this by Nassim Nicholas Taleb add to wishlist This is a book about luck. More specifically, it is a book about how we perceive luck, twist it around and regard it as intention or purpose. What better setting than the world of trading to invesdtigate the subject? How often has the brilliant trader, who seems to the outside world to have been granted the gift of second sight in the ... see all copies from £5.97! new only from £11.49!
8	Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness more books like this by Henri Louis Bergson add to wishlist One of the most remarkable philosophers of the early 20th century, Henri Bergson attempted to blend the new understandings of biological sciences with concepts of human consciousness in such books as 1907's Creative Evolution. With this extraordinary work, first published in French in 1889, Bergson anticipates Einstein's theory of relativity and ... see all copies from £8.68! new only from £8.68! \| first editions
9	Randomness more books like this by Deborah J Bennett add to wishlist This work is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties civilization overcame in progressing toward probabilistic thinking. It is also an account of what makes the science of probalitity daunting in our own day. To acquire a (correct) intuition of chance is not easy to begin with, ... see all copies from £6.35! new only from £7.80!
10	Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings more books like this by Immanuel Kant, George Di Giovanni (Editor), Robert Merrihew Adams (Introduction by) add to wishlist Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in ... see all copies from £11.74! new only from £13.62!
11 view cover	The power of ethical management more books like this by Kenneth H. Blanchard, Norman Vincent Peale add to wishlist In this book the authors discuss the ethics of business in the competitive atmosphere of interfirm rivalry. They offer basic tools, such as an "ethics check" which looks at legality, rationality and the effects of certain actions on a person's self esteem. Kenneth Blanchard has also written "The One-Minute Manager", and Norman Vincent Peale is a ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Illusion of Conscious Will more books like this by Daniel M Wegner add to wishlist Combining psychology with philosophy--and analyzing examples of Ouija boards, hypnosis, and dissociative identity disorder--Wegner comments on the question of free will vs. determinism. see all copies from £10.51! new only from £11.73!
13 view cover	Pensees and Other Writings more books like this by Blaise Pascal, Professor Anthony Levi (Editor), Honor Levi (Translator) add to wishlist For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These were to become known as the Pensees, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing. Pascal's general intention was to ... see all copies from £1.55! new only from £1.55!
14 view cover	Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life more books like this by Robert B Pippin add to wishlist This fresh and original book argues that the central questions in Hegel's practical philosophy are the central questions in modern accounts of freedom: What is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? Is it possible so to act? And how important is leading a free life? Robert Pippin argues that the core of Hegel's answers is a social theory of ... see all copies from £16.04! new only from £16.23!
15 view cover	Free Will more books like this by Derk Pereboom add to wishlist see all copies from £5.66! new only from £9.03! \| first editions
16 view cover	Not a Chance: The Myth of Chance in Modern Science and Cosmology more books like this by R C Sproul, Jr. add to wishlist Refutes the view of many contemporary scientists that chance can cause something to come into being or cause an event to occur. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.12! \| first editions
17 view cover	Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting more books like this by Daniel C Dennett add to wishlist In Elbow Room, Dennett shows how the classical formulations of the problem in philosophy depend on misuses of imagination, and he disentangles the philosophical problems of real interest from the "family of anxieties' they get enmeshed in - imaginary agents, bogeymen, and dire prospects that seem to threaten our freedom. see all copies from £7.46! new only from £10.46! \| first editions
18	Salvation by Faith and Your Will more books like this by Morris L. Venden add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! first editions
19 view cover	Freedom & It's Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty more books like this by Sir Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist Edited by Henry Hardy, these six short lectures by Isaiah Berlin were originally delivered over the radio for the BBC. In them, Berlin addresses human freedom and the history of ideas. see all copies from £7.60! new only from £8.42!
20 view cover	The Significance of Free Will more books like this by Robert Kane add to wishlist This work offers a provocative account of the issues surrounding free will and moral responsibility. It presents a version of the "incompatibilist" or "libertarian" view of free will, defending the classic view of free will as "the power of agents to be the ultimate creators and sustainers of their own ends and purposes" against a wide range of ... see all copies from £15.96! new only from £15.96! \| first editions
21 view cover	How Free Are You?: The Determinism Problem more books like this by Professor Ted Honderich add to wishlist This is a fully revised, enlarged and up-to-date edition of Ted Honderich's modern classic 'How Free Are You? The Determinism Problem'. In the first four chapters, he sets out a determinist philosophy of mind, in response to the question 'Is there a really clear, consistent and complete version of determinism?' He also considers whether there is ... see all copies from £5.74! new only from £17.75!
22	Free Will and Determinism: A Dialogue more books like this by Clifford Williams add to wishlist see all copies from £2.03! new only from £2.03!
23 view cover	Freedom and Determinism more books like this by Joseph Keim Campbell (Editor), Michael O'Rourke (Editor), David Shier (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of contemporary essays by prominent contemporary thinkers on the topics of determinism and free agency concentrates primarily on two areas: the problem of free will and determinism (i.e., the compatibility problem) and the metaphysics of moral responsibility. There are also essays on the related fields of determinism and action ... see all copies from £7.26! new only from £8.66!
24 view cover	Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster more books like this by Allan Combs, Mark Holland add to wishlist Carl Jung coined the term 'synchronicity' to describe meaningful concidences that conventional notions of time and causality cannot explain. Working with the great quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Jung sought to reveal these coincidences as phenomena that involve mind and matter, science and spirit. This could provide rational explanations for ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £10.28! \| first editions
25 view cover	Freedom Within Reason more books like this by Susan R Wolf add to wishlist In this book, Susan Wolf charts a course between incompatibilism, or the notion that freedom and responsibility require casual and metaphysical independence from the impersonal forces of nature, and compatibilism, or the notion that people are free and responsible as long as their actions are governed by their desires. Wolf argues that some of the ... see all copies from £6.73! new only from £17.39!

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