Elbow Room - The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting

Autor*innen

• Daniel Dennett

Parameter

• 227 Seiten
• 8 Lesestunden

• Metaphysik
• Philosophie
• Psychologie
• Sachliteratur
• Wissenschaft

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"In [his] ... 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, 'saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments.' In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting --those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility--are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail"--Page 4 of cover

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Einband: Paperback