Free Will

Name: Free Will
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ISBN: 9780262525794

ISBN-10: 0262525798

ISBN-13: 9780262525794

Edition: 2014

Authors: Mark Balaguer

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In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will,that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. Youget up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're incontrol of actions like these; if we are, then we have free will. But in recent years, some haveargued that free will is an illusion. The neuroscientist (and best-selling author) Sam Harris andthe late Harvard psychologist Daniel Wegner, for example, claim that certain scientific findingsdisprove free will. In this engaging and accessible volume in the Essential Knowledge series, thephilosopher Mark Balaguer examines the various arguments…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/14/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 7.95" wide x 6.97" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Mark Balaguer is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics and Free Will as an Open Scientific Question (MIT Press).