Books by Eric Marcus

“The need for this book is obvious. Why Suicide is a must read for anyone who is a student of life.”— John Shelby Spong, author of Eternal Life: A New Vision—Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell Subtitled “Questions and Answers About Suicide, Suicide Prevention, and Coping with the Suicide of Someone You Know,” Why Suicide? by Eric Marcus is an important, non-judgmental guide that bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman calls, “compassionate, informative, and insightful.” Anyone whose life has been dramatically touched by this most shattering occurrence can find answers and solace in this extraordinary book.

Contemporary philosophers of mind tend to explain rationality by viewing the mind as a kind of machine-the only alternative, it has seemed, to a ghostly supernatural explanation. Marcus rejects this choice as false and defends a third way-via rational causation, which draws on the theoretical and practical inferential abilities of human beings.