The question of free will has preoccupied philosophers for
millennia. In recent years the debate has been reinvigorated by the
findings of neuroscience and, for some, the notion that we have
free will has finally been laid to rest. Not so, says Raymond
Tallis. In his quest to reconcile our practical belief in our own
agency with our theoretical doubts, Tallis advances powerful
arguments for the reality of freedom. Tallis challenges the idea
that we are imprisoned by laws of nature that wire us into a
causally closed world. He shows that our capacity to discover and
exploit these laws is central to understanding the nature of
voluntary action and to reconciling free will with our status as
material beings. Bringing his familiar verve and insight to this
deep and most intriguing philosophical question, one that impacts
most directly on our lives and touches on nearly every other
philosophical problem - of consciousness, of time, of the nature of
the natural world, and of our unique place in the cosmos - Tallis
takes us to the heart of what we are. By understanding our freedom
he reveals our extraordinary nature more clearly.
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