9780674979581 - Why Free Will Is Real von List, Christian (7 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover, with dust-jacket. viii,216 pp.; 21.5x14.5 cm. Fine condition, see picture. Written in English, this book presents a scientifically rigorous argument affirming the existence of free will, challenging the skepticism of many scientists and philosophers. Christian List, a professor of philosophy and political science, contends that free will is a higher-level psychological phenomenon, emergent from but not reducible to physical processes, akin to ecosystems or economies. 380g.

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Zustand: New. Many scientists and scientifically-minded commentators are skeptical that free will exists. In clear, scientifically rigorous terms, Christian List explains that free will is like other real phenomena that emerge from physical processes but are autonomous f.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging what many scientists and scientifically minded philosophers believe.Philosophers have argued about the nature and the very existence of free will for centuries. Today, many scientists and scientifically minded commentators are skeptical that it exists, especially when it is understood to require the ability to choose between alternative possibilities. If the laws of physics govern everything that happens, they argue, then how can our choices be free Believers in free will must be misled by habit, sentiment, or religious doctrine. Why Free Will Is Real defies scientific orthodoxy and presents a bold new defense of free will in the same naturalistic terms that are usually deployed against it.Unlike those who defend free will by giving up the idea that it requires alternative possibilities to choose from, Christian List retains this idea as central, resisting the tendency to defend free will by watering it down. He concedes that free will and its prerequisites¿intentional agency, alternative possibilities, and causal control over our actions¿cannot be found among the fundamental physical features of the natural world. But, he argues, that¿s not where we should be looking. Free will is a ¿higher-level¿ phenomenon found at the level of psychology. It is like other phenomena that emerge from physical processes but are autonomous from them and not best understood in fundamental physical terms¿like an ecosystem or the economy. When we discover it in its proper context, acknowledging that free will is real is not just scientifically respectable; it is indispensable for explaining our world.