... some particular action or event. Other conceptions of freedom have involved a more positive approach, such as those put forth by Harry Frankfurt or Gary Watson. These accounts are concerned less with free action and more with the notion of the free will. These notions rely upon the ability of an ... agent to identify himself with his will, as in Frankfurt's conception of this notion. Watson suggests that a free will is really the result of inner workings between what he calls the "evaluational system" and the "motivational system". The evaluational ... system, as Gary Watson defines it...

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... that shapes and uses tools. The tools may be psychological ones acting internally, or technical ones that act on the environment.(Millar,1993:388) Vygotsky and Piaget were contemporaries with Watson and Skinner (behaviourists), Freud, (psychoanalysis) and Koffka (Gestalt psychology). (Bodrova & Leong, 1996:7) During the early part of the 20th century, the emerging field of psychology was linked to Darwinism and ... ...

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