Dennett, Daniel C. (Professor, Tufts University)

Elbow Room

The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting

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Daniel Dennett tackles the free will problem in a highly original and witty manner, drawing on the theories and concepts of several fields usually ignored by philosophers; not just physics and evolutionary biology, but engineering, automata theory, and artificial intelligence. In Elbow Room, Dennett shows how the classical formulations of the problem in philosophy depend on misuses of imagination, and he disentangles the philosophical problems of real interest from the family of anxieties' they get enmeshed in - imaginary agents, bogeymen, and dire prospects that seem to threaten our freedom. Putting sociobiology in its rightful place, he con… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-262-52779-8
EAN: 9780262527798
Produktnummer: 18019225
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 248 S.
Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 348 g
Auflage: new edition
Gewicht: 348
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the author of Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, all published by the MIT Press, and other books.