I remember it as the day my lot in life as a Cleveland Browns fan was cemented. Of course, you remember that game by two nauseating words: "The Fumble." (Seriously, I could barely type that.) I remember it as the day all my hopes and dreams collapsed, died, caught on fire and then were urinated on by the universe. Other featured topics include abilities and alternative possibilities, control and decision-making, the bearing of manipulation on free will, and the development of human infants into free agents.Courtesy of Geoff LaTulippeGeoff will never give up his beloved Browns.īut on that fateful winter day - I now was living, by some cosmic joke, in Denver - the 9-year-old me was packed with my father into the decidedly unfriendly confines of Mile High Stadium for the AFC Championship Game. One chapter explains influential neuroscientific studies of free will, and debunks some extravagant interpretations of the data. Luck poses problems for all believers in free will, and this book offers novel solutions.
It also clarifies the central concepts in the philosophical debate about free will and moral responsibility, criticizes various influential contemporary theories about free will, and develops two overlapping conceptions of free will: one for readers who are convinced that free will is incompatible with determinism (incompatibilists), and another for readers who are convinced of the opposite (compatibilists). It identifies and makes vivid the most important conceptual obstacles to the justified belief in the existence of free will, and meets them head on. This book aims to help readers think more clearly about free will. It also clarifies the central concepts in the philosophical debate about free will and moral responsibility, criticizes various influential contemporary theories about free will, and develops two overlapping conceptions of free will: one for readers who are convinced that free will is incompatible with determinism (incompatibilists), and another for readers who are convinced of the.
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