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Choice: The Philosophy of Decision
A topic hub for choice: what it is to choose, whether choice is free in a determined world, and how deliberation, desire, and will combine in human decision-making.
A topic hub for choice — the human capacity to deliberate and decide, its conditions and limits, and its role in freedom, agency, and moral responsibility.
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