Freedom Evolves

English

ISBN: 0142003840

EAN: 9780142003848

Category: Philosophy / Free Will & Determinism/Education / Decision-Making & Problem Solving/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 01/27/2004

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: 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.

Awards: Aventis Prizes for Science Books – null  Aventis Prizes for Science Books – null 

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Freedom Evolves

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.88 inches

Width: 5.25 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 11.39 oz

Pages: 368