Elbow Room The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780262540421
  • 21 november 1984
  • 212 pagina's
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Anyone who has wondered if free will is just an illusion or has asked 'could I have chosen otherwise?' after performing some rash deed will find this book an absorbing discussion of an endlessly fascinating subject. Daniel Dennett, whose previous books include Brainstorms and (with Douglas Hofstadter) The Mind's I, 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 concludes that we can have free will and science too. Elbow Room begins by showing how we can be moved by reasons without being exempt from physical causation. It goes on to analyze concepts of control and self-control-concepts often skimped by philosophers but which are central to the questions of free will and determinism. A chapter on self-made selves discusses the idea of self or agent to see how it can be kept from disappearing under the onslaught of science. Dennett then sees what can be made of the notion of acting under the idea of freedomdoes the elbow room we think we have really exist? What is an opportunity, and how can anything in our futures be up to us ? He investigates the meaning of can and could have done otherwise, and asks why we want free will in the first place.We are wise, Dennett notes, to want free will, but that in itself raises a host of questions about responsibility. In a final chapter, he takes up the problem of how anyone can ever be guilty, and what the rationale is for holding people responsible and even, on occasion, punishing them. Elbow Room is an expanded version of the John Locke Lectures which Dennett gave at Oxford University in 1983.

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21 november 1984
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212
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Hoofdauteur
Daniel C Dennett
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Daniel C. Dennett
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Mit Press Ltd

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146 mm
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13 mm
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229 mm
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146 mm
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    Argumenten ter verdediging van de vrije wil tegenover het determinisme. Dit was het meest toegankelijke boek die ik had kunnen vinden over de discussie tussen vrije wil en het determinisme. En ik moet zeggen; voor een simpel boek is het best pittig.

    De auteur komt met goede vragen waar hij antwoord op probeert te verstrekken. Ik moest zijn argumenten goed in laten zinken en zijn bedoeling goed achterhalen. Anders stapelen je gedachten op met vragen gebrekkig aan resolutie.

    Het begin valt anders goed te volgen -namelijk de intuïtie pompen.

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