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Determinism Books
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,462,234 ratings — published 1969
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.27 — 39,987 ratings — published 1916
Free Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as determinism)
avg rating 3.86 — 37,512 ratings — published 2012
Freedom Evolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as determinism)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,862 ratings — published 2003
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,108 ratings — published 2023
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as determinism)
avg rating 3.87 — 817 ratings — published 1984
Four Views on Free Will (Great Debates in Philosophy)
by (shelved 4 times as determinism)
avg rating 3.80 — 158 ratings — published 2007
The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (Oxford Handbooks)
by (shelved 3 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.14 — 69 ratings — published 2001
Free Will: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as determinism)
avg rating 3.17 — 567 ratings — published 2004
Determined to Believe: The Sovereignty of God, Freedom, Faith and Human Responsibility (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.34 — 397 ratings — published
Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.33 — 21 ratings — published 1999
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.25 — 121,995 ratings — published 2002
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.39 — 30,372 ratings — published 2017
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,164 ratings — published 2011
The Illusion of Conscious Will (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.02 — 687 ratings — published 2002
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,240 ratings — published 1997
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,343,568 ratings — published 1942
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,292 ratings — published 1976
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 2 times as determinism)
avg rating 4.08 — 70,296 ratings — published 2001
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 4.33 — 815 ratings — published 2002
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,567,470 ratings — published 1939
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.68 — 70,356 ratings — published 2000
El escarabajo de oro (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.57 — 5,954 ratings — published 1843
Los Tres Pequeños superpigs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.74 — 548 ratings — published 2018
My Adventure At Chiselhurst (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.33 — 18 ratings — published
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.96 — 962 ratings — published 2000
Mortina e l'amico fantasma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 4.20 — 934 ratings — published 2018
The Stars Are the Styx (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.89 — 123 ratings — published 1979
Viewpoint (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 2.40 — 20 ratings — published 2010
Nuclear Jellyfish (Serge Storms, #11)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,905 ratings — published 2009
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 4.08 — 472,568 ratings — published 2006
I Was Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.73 — 68,215 ratings — published 2015
Death and Croissants (A Follet Valley Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.23 — 13,193 ratings — published 2021
God in the Bowl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.65 — 283 ratings — published 1952
Ideas Have Consequences (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,861 ratings — published 1948
The Lost Apothecary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 480,050 ratings — published 2021
The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,862 ratings — published 2011
The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (Cat Who..., #29)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.45 — 5,751 ratings — published 2007
The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,248 ratings — published 1985
The Maze (John Corey, #8)
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avg rating 3.76 — 21,636 ratings — published 2022
The Plan for the Gingerbread House: A STEM Engineering Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.31 — 39 ratings — published
My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,717 ratings — published 2013
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,536 ratings — published 2024
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.87 — 331 ratings — published 2023
The Kingdom (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.03 — 911 ratings — published 2011
The Burning Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.86 — 873 ratings — published 1937
Slaughter at Daisybrook Farm (ebook)
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avg rating 3.29 — 7 ratings — published
La Grande Bretèche (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as determinism)
avg rating 3.69 — 443 ratings — published
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 23,897 ratings — published 2020
BLACK MASK APRIL 1920 (FIRST ISSUE)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
“Libet’s EEG experiments suggest that we might not have free will. If the results of the experiment are to be believed, then what is the point? What is the fun if everything is determined? Wouldn’t Almighty get bored with us? We are more than our thoughts. And we are certainly way more than our actions. But how and why?”
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
― The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?
a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of "free will" can be compatible with determinism?
or
b. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society?
Of course my answer is b).”
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a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of "free will" can be compatible with determinism?
or
b. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society?
Of course my answer is b).”
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