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The philosophical crux is whether choice is a process in which different desires, pressures, and attitudes fight it out and eventually result in one decision and action, or whether in addition there is a ‘self’ controlling the conflict, in the name of higher desires, reason, or morality. The attempt to add such an extra to the more passive picture (often attributed to Hume ) is characteristic of Kantian ethics, and is a particular target not only of Humean, but also of much feminist and postmodernist writing. See also free will, Newcomb's paradox, volition, will.