Action, Knowledge, and Will

John Hyman is a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, Professor of Aesthetics in the University of Oxford, and Editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. He held a Getty Scholarship at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, in 2001-2002, a Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2002-2003, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2010-2012.

• Preface ; 1. Agency and the Will ; 2. Action and Integration ; 3. Acts and Events ; 4. Voluntariness and Choice ; 5. Desire and Intention ; 6. Reason and Knowledge ; 7. Knowledge as an Ability ; 8. The Road to Larissa ; Appendix: The Modern Theory of the Will ; Endnotes ; Bibliography ; Acknowledgements ; Index

Action, Knowledge, and Will is a splendid book--insightful, original, elegantly written and carefully edited, and a genuine pleasure to read. John Hyman weaves strands of historical, legal, empirical, and conceptual analysis into a series of arguments that are fresh and exciting at every turn.