Elbow room : the varieties of free will worth wanting / Daniel C. Dennett.
"In this landmark 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...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Preface to the new edition -- |t Preface to the first edition -- |t Please don't feed the bugbears -- |t Making reason practical -- |t Control and self-control -- |t Self-made selves -- |t Acting under the idea of freedom -- |t "Could have done otherwise" -- |t Why do we want free will? -- |t Afterword: erasmus: sometimes a spin doctor is right. |
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