false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159814098m/2071.jpg 2071 5 Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers &#147;yes!&#148; Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments&#151;drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy&#151;that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally. In <I>Freedom Evolves</I>, Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature. 2767774 27 1 2004 Freedom Evolves total:233|5:53|4:88|3:71|2:15|1:6| 233 866 429 28 1 2 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 22:14:54 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 02 15:07:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 06 17:26:12 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 06 18:45:54 -0800 2007 Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and pushing them into their logical follow-up questions: If materialism is so true, what are we to do about determinism and free will? A more in-depth look at determinism, what freedom really is, why quantum physic...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 21:45:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 21:56:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Jan 31 11:58:32 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 12:20:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 10:24:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 13:16:35 -0700 2009
Drop an apple and it will reliably fall to the ground, knock a snooker ball (or an atom) into another one at a particular speed and angle and you can predict the paths of both of them. Even the strange sub-atomic quantum realm operates within areas of...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 06:58:37 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 22:42:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 11:52:11 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 16:27:06 -0700 2009 The point he makes, against all those who are afraid of determinism, genes and modern science, is that with our consciousness explained and debunked we're more free than ever.

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