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ISBN-10: 0142003840
ISBN-13: 9780142003848
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Publish Date: 01/27/2004
Dimensions: 8.03" L, 5.33" W, 0.84" H

Freedom Evolves

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Overview

Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers “yes!” Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original
arguments–drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy–that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally. In Freedom Evolves, Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature.

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"Dennett has taken on really big issues, made them clear, dealt with them seriously and given us much on which to reflect. . . . Crisp and critically insightful." –The Washington Post Book World

"One of the most original thinkers of our time." –Science

"Dennett stands as the sharpest, cleverest, most stylish prober of how issues of human consciousness interconnect today with evolutionary theory." –The Philadelphia Inquirer

"A serious book with a brilliant message." –Matt Ridley, The Sunday Telegraph

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Details

ISBN-10: 0142003840
ISBN-13: 9780142003848
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Publish Date: 01/27/2004
Dimensions: 8.03" L, 5.33" W, 0.84" H
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