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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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
MIT Press,
[2015]
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| Edition: | New edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the new edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Please don't feed the bugbears
- Making reason practical
- Control and self-control
- Self-made selves
- Acting under the idea of freedom
- "Could have done otherwise"
- Why do we want free will?
- Afterword: erasmus: sometimes a spin doctor is right.