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Determinism Books
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,469,129 ratings — published 1969
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 40,039 ratings — published 1916
Free Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 37,714 ratings — published 2012
Freedom Evolves (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,864 ratings — published 2003
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 7,385 ratings — published 2023
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as determinism)
avg rating 3.87 — 822 ratings — published 1984
Four Views on Free Will (Great Debates in Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.79 — 159 ratings — published 2007
The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 69 ratings — published 2001
Free Will: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.17 — 570 ratings — published 2004
Determined to Believe: The Sovereignty of God, Freedom, Faith and Human Responsibility (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.34 — 401 ratings — published
Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 21 ratings — published 1999
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 123,106 ratings — published 2002
The Illusion of Conscious Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 691 ratings — published 2002
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 452,021 ratings — published 1997
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,361,884 ratings — published 1942
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 191,156 ratings — published 1976
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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avg rating 4.08 — 70,698 ratings — published 2001
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 816 ratings — published 2002
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,583,346 ratings — published 1939
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 70,983 ratings — published 2000
El escarabajo de oro (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 6,029 ratings — published 1843
Los Tres Pequeños superpigs (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 551 ratings — published 2018
My Adventure At Chiselhurst (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 18 ratings — published
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 975 ratings — published 2000
Mortina e l'amico fantasma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 947 ratings — published 2018
The Stars Are the Styx (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 123 ratings — published 1979
Viewpoint (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.40 — 20 ratings — published 2010
Nuclear Jellyfish (Serge Storms, #11)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,917 ratings — published 2009
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 479,659 ratings — published 2006
I Was Here (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 68,306 ratings — published 2015
Death and Croissants (A Follet Valley Mystery, #1)
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avg rating 3.23 — 13,417 ratings — published 2021
God in the Bowl (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 285 ratings — published 1952
Ideas Have Consequences (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,867 ratings — published 1948
The Lost Apothecary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 486,737 ratings — published 2021
The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,866 ratings — published 2011
The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers (Cat Who..., #29)
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avg rating 3.45 — 5,777 ratings — published 2007
The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 11,260 ratings — published 1985
The Maze (John Corey, #8)
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avg rating 3.76 — 21,799 ratings — published 2022
The Plan for the Gingerbread House: A STEM Engineering Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.31 — 39 ratings — published
My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 2,718 ratings — published 2013
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 3,674 ratings — published 2024
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 340 ratings — published 2023
The Kingdom (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.03 — 917 ratings — published 2011
The Burning Court (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 878 ratings — published 1937
Slaughter at Daisybrook Farm (ebook)
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avg rating 3.29 — 7 ratings — published
La Grande Bretèche (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 445 ratings — published
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 24,252 ratings — published 2020
BLACK MASK APRIL 1920 (FIRST ISSUE)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
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Detective Story Magazine 1920-08-17: Vol 34 Iss 1 Volume 34 1920 [Leather Bound] (Leather Bound)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.91 — 16,317 ratings — published 2017
“But recently I have learned from discussions with a variety of scientists and other non-philosophers (e.g., the scientists participating with me in the Sean Carroll workshop on the future of naturalism) that they lean the other way: free will, in their view, is obviously incompatible with naturalism, with determinism, and very likely incoherent against any background, so they cheerfully insist that of course they don't have free will, couldn’t have free will, but so what? It has nothing to do with morality or the meaning of life. Their advice to me at the symposium was simple: recast my pressing question as whether naturalism (materialism, determinism, science...) has any implications for what we may call moral competence. For instance, does neuroscience show that we cannot be responsible for our choices, cannot justifiably be praised or blamed, rewarded or punished? Abandon the term 'free will' to the libertarians and other incompatibilists, who can pursue their fantasies untroubled. Note that this is not a dismissal of the important issues; it’s a proposal about which camp gets to use, and define, the term. I am beginning to appreciate the benefits of discarding the term 'free will' altogether, but that course too involves a lot of heavy lifting, if one is to avoid being misunderstood.”
― Consciousness Explained
― Consciousness Explained
“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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