In recent years, philosophical discussions of free will have focused largely on whether or not free will is compatible with determinism. In this challenging book, David Hodgson takes a fresh approach to the question of free will, contending that close consideration of human rationality and human consciousness shows that together they give us free will, in a robust and indeterministic sense. In particular, they give us the capacity to respond appositely to feature-rich gestalts of conscious experiences, in ways that are not wholly determined by laws of nature or computational rules. The author...

The Morphine Diaries - the true story of a father's morphine fuelled experience following a twelve-hour life-saving operation. Documented by both his daughter, Laura-Louise, and her father himself. This is their testimony looking back from the light at the end of the tunnel. David only just made it through the emergency open heart surgery, which saw him flat-line and be brought back to life. The two weeks he spent in intensive care recovering just before Christmas 2013, were a roller coaster - with no safety harness. His youngest daughter, Laura-Louise, began anonymously blogging about the...