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Freedom evolvesDaniel C. Dennett

Freedom evolves

Daniel C. Dennett
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"Four billion years ago, there was no freedom on our planet, because there was no life. What kinds of freedom have evolved since the origin of life? Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? If you are free, are you responsible for being free, or just lucky?". "In Freedom Evolves, Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained, sets out to answer these questions, showing how we, alone among the animals, have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. In a series of strikingly original arguments drawing on evolutionary biology,…

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5 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2003
    Viking Adult · 368 pages · 9780670031863
  • Other · English · 2004
    Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141949802
  • Other · English · 2004
    Penguin Books Ltd · 368 pages · 9780140283891
  • Other · English · 2004
    Penguin (Non-Classics) · 368 pages · 9780142003848
  • Other · English · 2003
    Allen Lane · 347 pages · 9780713993394
Decision makingFree will and determinismNew York Times reviewedVrije wilDeterminismeEvolutietheorieFilosofische aspecten