Elbow Room (Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting)
Description
Anyone who has wondered if free will is just an illusion or has asked 'could I have chosen otherwise? ' after performing some rash deed will find this book an absorbing discussion of an endlessly fascinating subject. Daniel Dennett, whose previous books include Brainstorms and (with Douglas Hofstadter) The Mind's I, tackles the free will problem in a highly original and witty manner, drawing on the theories and concepts of several fields usually ignored by philosophers; not just physics and evolutionary biology, but engineering, automata theory, and artificial intelligence. I...
ISBN(s)
0198247907, 9780198247906
