Persons and Causes The Metaphysics of Free Will [Paperback]

This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided agent causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionismv.emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind.

This excellent book contributes to the debate about freedom in analytic philosophy....Anyone who is interested in the metaphysical requirements of freedom should read this book. --Paul Raymont, Carleton University

The book is intelligent throughout. O'Connor is unafraid to defend an unfashionable view, and to do so in a bold and imaginative way. --John Martin Fischer,MIND

O'Connor....is gifted and productive philosopher who will undoubtedly have more to say about the free will issue. --Philosophia Christi