Free Will and Action Explanation: A Non-Causal Combatibilist Account, by Scott Sehon: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. xii + 239, £45 [Book Review]

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96 (2):411-413 (2018)
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Baker reviews the book Free will and action explanation: A non-causal combatibilist account, by Scott Sehon.

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Actions, Reasons, and Causes.Donald Davidson - 1963 - Journal of Philosophy 60 (23):685.
Teleological Realism: Mind, Agency, and Explanation.Scott Robert Sehon - 2005 - Cambridge MA: Bradford Book/MIT Press.
Teleological Realism: Mind, Agency, and Explanation.Carolyn Price - 2007 - Philosophical Quarterly 57 (228):501-503.

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