Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net DETERMINISM OR FREE-WILL? Printed and Published by THE PIONEER PRESS (G. W. FOOTE & CO., LTD.), 61 Farringdon Street, London, E.C. 4. Determinism OR Free-Will? BY CHAPMAN COHEN. New Edition. Revised and Enlarged. LONDON: THE PIONEER PRESS, 61 FARRINGDON STREET, E.C. 4. 1919. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I.--THE QUESTION STATED 9 II.--"FREEDOM" AND "WILL" 23 III.--CONSCIOUSNESS, DELIBERATION, AND CHOICE 36 IV.--SOME ALLEGED CONSEQUENCES OF DETERMINISM 50 V.--PROFESSOR JAMES ON THE "DILEMMA OF DETERMINISM" 63 VI.--THE NATURE AND IMPLICATIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY 76 VII.--DETERMINISM AND CHARACTER 92 VIII.--A PROBLEM IN DETERMINISM 101 IX.--ENVIRONMENT 117 PREFACE TO NEW EDITION. The demand for a new edition of _Determinism or Free-Will_ is gratifying as affording evidence of the existence of a public, apart from the class catered for by more expensive publications, interested in philosophic questions[1]. It was, indeed, in the conviction that such a public existed that the book was written. Capacity, in spite of a popular impression to the contrary, has no very close relation to cash, nor is interest in philosophic questions indicated solely by the ability to spend a half-guinea or guinea on a work that might well have been published at three or four shillings. There exists a fairly large public of sufficient capacity and education intelligently to discuss the deeper aspects of life, but which has neither time nor patience to give to the study of bulky works that so often leave a subject more obscure at the end than it was at the beginning. [1] When the Mss. of this work was submitted to a well-known firm of publishers, the reply came in the form of an offer to publish the work provided it could be expanded so as to admit of its publication at 7/6. It would have been quite easy to have done this; the difficulty is to compress, and the less a subject is understood the easier it is to write at length on it. But the offer, though financially tempting, would have defeated the purpose for which the work was written, and so was declined.