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Elbow Room New Edition
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Author : Daniel C. Dennett
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2015-08-07
Elbow Room New Edition written by Daniel C. Dennett and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-07 with Philosophy categories.
A landmark book in the debate over free will that makes the case for compatibilism. In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, “saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments.” In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting—those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility—are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail. Dennett tackles the question of free will in a highly original and witty manner, drawing on the theories and concepts of fields that range from physics and evolutionary biology to engineering, automata theory, and artificial intelligence. He 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” in which they are often enmeshed—imaginary agents and bogeymen, including the Peremptory Puppeteer, the Nefarious Neurosurgeon, and the Cosmic Child Whose Dolls We Are. Putting sociobiology in its rightful place, he concludes that we can have free will and science too. He explores reason, control and self-control, the meaning of “can” and “could have done otherwise,” responsibility and punishment, and why we would want free will in the first place. A fresh reading of Dennett's book shows how much it can still contribute to current discussions of free will. This edition includes as its afterword Dennett's 2012 Erasmus Prize essay.
Elbow Room New Edition
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Author : Daniel C. Dennett
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2015-08-07
Elbow Room New Edition written by Daniel C. Dennett and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-07 with Philosophy categories.
A landmark book in the debate over free will that makes the case for compatibilism. In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, “saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments.” In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting—those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility—are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail. Dennett tackles the question of free will in a highly original and witty manner, drawing on the theories and concepts of fields that range from physics and evolutionary biology to engineering, automata theory, and artificial intelligence. He 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” in which they are often enmeshed—imaginary agents and bogeymen, including the Peremptory Puppeteer, the Nefarious Neurosurgeon, and the Cosmic Child Whose Dolls We Are. Putting sociobiology in its rightful place, he concludes that we can have free will and science too. He explores reason, control and self-control, the meaning of “can” and “could have done otherwise,” responsibility and punishment, and why we would want free will in the first place. A fresh reading of Dennett's book shows how much it can still contribute to current discussions of free will. This edition includes as its afterword Dennett's 2012 Erasmus Prize essay.
Elbow Room
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Author : Charles Heber Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Elbow Room written by Charles Heber Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Book jackets categories.
Elbow Room
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
Elbow Room written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Humorous stories categories.
Elbow Room
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Author : James Alan McPherson
language : en
Publisher: Fawcett
Release Date : 1986-10-12
Elbow Room written by James Alan McPherson and has been published by Fawcett this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-10-12 with Fiction categories.
A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define. Whether a story dashes the bravado of young street toughs or pierces through the self-deception of a failed preacher, challenges the audacity of a killer or explodes the jealousy of two lovers, James Alan McPherson has created an array of haunting images and memorable characters in an unsurpassed collection of honest, masterful fiction.
Freedom Evolves
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Author : Daniel C. Dennett
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2004-01-27
Freedom Evolves written by Daniel C. Dennett and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-27 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Brainstorms
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Author : Daniel Clement Dennett
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1981
Brainstorms written by Daniel Clement Dennett and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Philosophy categories.
This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. The essays are grouped into four sections: Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality; The Nature of Theory in Psychology; Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will and Personhood.
Elbow Room
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Author : Charles Heber Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
Elbow Room written by Charles Heber Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Humorous stories categories.
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools For Thinking
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Author : Daniel C. Dennett
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-05-05
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools For Thinking written by Daniel C. Dennett and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-05 with Philosophy categories.
One of the world's leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments. Includes 77 of Dennett's most successful "imagination-extenders and focus-holders.O
Elbow Room
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Author : Charles Heber Clark
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01
Elbow Room written by Charles Heber Clark and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01 with categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.