Freedom evolves
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Freedom evolves
Allen Lane the Penguin Press, 2003
Available at 1 libraries
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"First published in the USA by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. 2003. First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane The Penguin Press. 2003"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-324) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this text, Daniel Dennett shows that human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found only in one species - us. There was a time on this planet when it didn't exist, quite recently in fact. It had to evolve like every other feature of the biosphere and it continues to evolve today. Dennett shows that far from there being an incompatibility between contemporary science and the traditional vision of freedom and morality, it is only recently that science has advanced to the point where we can see how we came to have our unique kind of freedom.
Table of Contents
- Natural freedom
- a tool for thinking about determinism
- thinking about determinism
- a hearing for libertarianism
- where does all the design come from?
- the evolution of open minds
- the evolution of a moral agency
- are you out of the loop?
- bootstrapping ourselves free
- the future of human freedom.
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