Chapters in this book

1. Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Nothing from Nothing 1
5. 1. Actions, Agents, Causes 27
6. 2. Consciousness and Mental Causation: Lucretius, Rochester, Locke 61
7. 3. Rochester’s Mind 99
8. 4. Uneasiness, or Locke among Others 141
9. 5. Haywood and Consent 168
10. 6. Action and Inaction in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa 194
11. Notes 233
12. Index 299