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Freedom Evolves

By: Daniel C. Dennett
Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
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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.

©2003 Daniel C. Dennett (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Biological Sciences Evolution Evolution & Genetics History & Philosophy Philosophy Physics Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Science Social Sciences Morality
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This book is one long argument against Konrad, a hypothetical and argumentative individual who gives voice to many misconceptions about free will that are fashionable among intellectuals today. Dennett shows convincingly how and why we have varieties of free will worth wanting. The book is a difficult one, and the fast but fun pace with which it is sassily read mean more than one listening is advised. But of any book by anyone is worth a second read it's this one.

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