Causal dialogues, or, What is influence?

John T. Blackmore

Blackmore presents six dialogues patterned after those of Socrates in which a leader, an ally, a man of the cloth, a partly educated young women eager to learn, and a vigorous opponent debate a number of questions. They are influence and representation, free-will and self-defense, science and practical reason, the nature of influence, searching for assumptions, and when the forts of folly fall.