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Why Free Will Is Real (Hardcover)
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Why Free Will Is Real (Hardcover)
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A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence
of free will, challenging what many scientists and scientifically
minded philosophers believe. Philosophers have argued about the
nature and the very existence of free will for centuries. Today,
many scientists and scientifically minded commentators are
skeptical that it exists, especially when it is understood to
require the ability to choose between alternative possibilities. If
the laws of physics govern everything that happens, they argue,
then how can our choices be free? Believers in free will must be
misled by habit, sentiment, or religious doctrine. Why Free Will Is
Real defies scientific orthodoxy and presents a bold new defense of
free will in the same naturalistic terms that are usually deployed
against it. Unlike those who defend free will by giving up the idea
that it requires alternative possibilities to choose from,
Christian List retains this idea as central, resisting the tendency
to defend free will by watering it down. He concedes that free will
and its prerequisites-intentional agency, alternative
possibilities, and causal control over our actions-cannot be found
among the fundamental physical features of the natural world. But,
he argues, that's not where we should be looking. Free will is a
"higher-level" phenomenon found at the level of psychology. It is
like other phenomena that emerge from physical processes but are
autonomous from them and not best understood in fundamental
physical terms-like an ecosystem or the economy. When we discover
it in its proper context, acknowledging that free will is real is
not just scientifically respectable; it is indispensable for
explaining our world.
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