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John Lemos's book, "Free Will's Value: Criminal Justice, Pride, and Love," provides a comprehensive overview of moral free will and its implications in various contexts. Lemos critiques different theories and argues for his own version of leeway-libertarianism, which combines elements from Robert Kane and Robert Nozick's accounts. The book also explores the role of free will in criminal justice and loving relationships, arguing against hard incompatibilism and providing evidence for libertarian free will. Lemos's theory emphasizes the importance of self- or character-forming initiatives in valuable types of love. However, there are some criticisms of Lemos's account, particularly regarding the phenomenological problem and the control over contrasting reasons for different options. Overall, the book offers a thought-provoking analysis of free will and its value in various aspects of life. [Extracted from the article]

"A Companion to Erasmus," edited by Eric MacPhail, is the first-ever companion volume to the works and legacy of Erasmus, a prominent figure in intellectual, cultural, and religious history in late medieval and early modern Europe. The book features essays by leading scholars that delve into various aspects of Erasmus's writings, including his literary and educational works, his engagement with church fathers and philosophers, his biblical scholarship, his dispute with Luther over free will, his adages, his correspondence, his relationship with printers, his views on religious tolerance, his writings about marginalized groups, and the translations of his works. This comprehensive volume provides valuable insights into the complexities of Erasmus's works and their significance in early modern Europe. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy" by Tobias Hoffmann, published by Cambridge University Press, analyzes the theories about free will proposed by medieval authors, focusing on the Latin tradition of the 13th-14th centuries. The author examines the reception of Aristotle's work in the study of freedom and addresses topics such as freedom, the origin of evil, and angelic sin. Hoffmann analyzes authors such as Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, and explores issues related to Judeo-Christian revelation and moral psychology. The book reflects on the origin of evil and theological explanations throughout history, highlighting the differences in explanations about the sin of angels and the importance of the doctrine of affections in relation to freedom. The last chapter is dedicated to the obstinacy of angels and Ockham's novel stance. In conclusion, the book highlights the difficulties of a Christian philosophy in explaining free action and the idea that all Christian theologies affirm freedom in the control of choices. [Extracted from the article]

The text titled "Faust and Goethe: a reading of Edith Stein" presents an analysis of Edith Stein's work on the German poet Goethe and his work "Faust". Stein examines Goethe's influence in his time and in subsequent generations, highlighting the importance of his thinking for the formation of youth. The article focuses on the aspects that Stein highlights in her rereading of Goethe, analyzing the contents that intersect in the work. Stein considers that the poem Faust offers something different from the individual struggles of the soul and suggests that Goethe was under the power of a higher spirit. In this text, the philosopher Edith Stein analyzes Goethe's work "Faust" and its representation of the modern man in search of self-determination. Stein points out that freedom must be for the good in itself and not based on self-pride. Furthermore, she criticizes Goethe's mechanical view of freedom and the lack of recognition of sin and repentance. [Extracted from the article]

The article is a book review of "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will" by Robert M. Sapolsky. The reviewer discusses how the book explores the concept of free will and argues that our behaviors are determined by cellular, molecular, genetic, and environmental factors. The book presents evidence from neurobiology, cell biology, genetics, and evolution to support this argument. The reviewer praises Sapolsky's writing style and ability to communicate complex scientific concepts effectively. They also mention that the book addresses the historical and cultural implications of the belief in free will. Overall, the reviewer found the book to be thought-provoking and informative. [Extracted from the article]

God (with God's reasons [ sc. for creating E]) b. E c. The causal-dependence relation between God and E (58) Given EM, Matthews Grant argues that although God directly causes creatures' actions in their entirety ( I per i DUC), these actions are not predetermined. As glossed by W. Matthews Grant, DUC holds that: Necessarily, for any entity distinct from God, God directly causes that entity to exist at any time it exists. This reconciliation will require explaining, I inter alia i , how God's causation does not predetermine free human actions or morally compromise God through involvement in sin; these issues are introduced as the subjects of the following chapters. [Extracted from the article]

Caruso and Dennett represent the two main camps in the modern free will debate: those who think that free will is compatible with determinism and those who do not. Except Dennett believes these notions to be hopelessly muddled and incoherent anyway, a form of "free will inflation" (Dennett, [2]), whereas Caruso thinks that we I could i (and should?) have had them but we do not, and this changes everything. For both thinkers, a lot is at stake: Caruso believes that giving up on free will and moral responsibility would make for a much better world, while Dennett believes that it would be disastrous (26). [Extracted from the article]

For example, with regard to Aquinas (who is still often dubbed an "intellectualist" in an unqualified manner) Hoffmann emphasizes that he has more of a "moderate" (p. 54) view which encompasses voluntarist dimensions and thus at least in some areas comes closer to Henry of Ghent than one would be inclined to think. Tobias Hoffmann, I Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy i . The historical outline just given provides the structural backbone of the first five chapters of the book, in which Hoffmann delivers subsequent readings of the different authors involved and also pays attention to their (direct or indirect) interaction. [Extracted from the article]

Does postcolonial states' idiosyncrasy with group rights make them identity-blind liberal zealots, aggressive ethno-nationalists, human rights critics, or abusers I tout court i ? The enduring (and historically entrenched) assimilationist desires of many modern states, and certainly of many postcolonial states, can only partly be mitigated by legal advances in indigenous rights, as initiated by the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as the burgeoning jurisprudence in the field within the Inter-American and African human rights systems, especially in relation to land and natural resources. Whilst the book challenges certain ideologies of the state, it equally recognises that "as of now, states do indeed remain the core of the international system and there is no sign of their demise anytime soon" (p. 298). [Extracted from the article]

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In Chapter 2, Getachew demonstrates the counter-revolutionary attempts of the architects of the early 20 SP th sp century international order to reconstitute imperial hierarchy and unequal integration rule afresh through the League of Nations. In Chapter 1, Getachew demonstrates a distinctive conception of decolonisation as "worldmaking" through an interrogation of the political thought of Kwame Nkrumah and W. E. B. Du Bois, among others. In I Worldmaking After Empire i , Adom Getachew masterfully charts the political theories born of post-World War II anticolonial struggles across the Black Atlantic. [Extracted from the article]

Ana Dinerstein's I The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope i offers such a vocabulary. The prefigurative power of these experiences allows to move beyond the historical impasse within the left on whether alternative to capitalism should be built by taking the power of the state or outside capitalism altogether. [Extracted from the article]

Getachew, Adom Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019; 288 pp.: IBSN 9780691179155, £30 (hardcover), £22 (paperback). In contrast, Getachew shows that key Black Atlantic leaders understood Empire not as the exclusion of the colonised from international society, but as their "unequal integration" into it. In addition, as Getachew acknowledges, the NIEO glossed over class divisions within postcolonial nations and overestimated the capacity of the UN to serve as an instrument to effect global redistribution. [Extracted from the article]

In general, TD is less credible than White contends, and his arguments are unlikely to persuade free-will advocates and agnostics. Theological Determinism (TD) is the most attractive and credible theistic option for questions regarding free-will and God's power, according to White (University of North Carolina). White notes that different versions of TD have been argued by Luther, Aquinas (though disputed), Jonathan Edwards, and Calvin. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Personal Autonomy in Society," by Marina Oshana.

Reviews the book "Isolated Cases: The Anxieties of Autonomy in Enlightenment Philosophy and Romantic Literature," by Nancy Yousef.

The article reviews the book "Personal Autonomy in Society," by Marina Oshana.

Reviews the book 'Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy,' by Karl Ameriks.

Reviews the book 'The Invention of Autonomy; A History of Modern Moral Philosophy,' by J.B. Scheenwind.

The article reviews the book "The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy," by J. B. Schneewind.

Reviews the book 'Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy,' by Alfred R. Mele.

Reviews the book `Autonomy and Self-Respect,' by Thomas E. Hill, Jr. Moral purity versus moral complicity; Protest of an injustice; Disassociation from evil; Kantian view of respect, self-respect, autonomy and human dignity; Snobbery and human dignity.

The article reviews the book "The Theory and Practice of Autonomy," by Gerald Dworkin.

The article reviews the book "The Scope of Autonomy: Kant and the Morality of Freedom" by Katerina Deligiorgi.

The article reviews the book "La fabrique de l'homme endetté: Essai sur la condition néoliberale," by Maurizio Lazzarato.

The article reviews the book "Autonomy and Liberalism," by Ben Colburn.

The article reviews the book "Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays," edited by John Christman and Joel Anderson.

The article reviews the book "Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and Its role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy," edited by James Stacey Taylor.

The article reviews the book ""New Essays on the History of Autonomy: A Collection Honoring J.B. Schneewind," edited by Natalie Brender and Larry Krasnoff.

Reviews the book "Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy," by Carolyn McLeod.

Reviews the book 'The Crisis of Autonomy: The Existentialist Critique of Freud,' by Gerald N. Izenberg.

A review of the book "Governed Through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction," by Jennifer M. Denbow, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Subsidiary Governance: Theoretical and Empirical Models" edited by Alessandro Colombo.