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Daniel C. Dennett''s Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will?

How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws?

Here, Daniel Dennett provides an impassioned defense of free will. But rather than freedom being an eternal, unchanging condition of our existence, in reality, he reveals, it has evolved: just like life on the planet and the air we breathe. Evolution is the key to resolving this greatest of philosophical questions - and to understanding our place in the world as uniquely free agents.

Dennett shows that far from there being an incompatibility between contemporary science and the traditional vision of freedom and morality, it is only recently that science has advanced to the point where we can see how we came to have our unique kind of freedom.

''A serious book with a

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 26 February 2004
      ISBN-13 9780140283891
      978-0140283891
      ISBN-10 0140283897
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      Politics, Philosophy & Society Society and culture: general Western philosophy from c 1800 Science & Nature Science: general issues

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Daniel C. Dennett''s Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will?

      How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws?

      Here, Daniel Dennett provides an impassioned defense of free will. But rather than freedom being an eternal, unchanging condition of our existence, in reality, he reveals, it has evolved: just like life on the planet and the air we breathe. Evolution is the key to resolving this greatest of philosophical questions - and to understanding our place in the world as uniquely free agents.

      Dennett shows that far from there being an incompatibility between contemporary science and the traditional vision of freedom and morality, it is only recently that science has advanced to the point where we can see how we came to have our unique kind of freedom.

      ''A serious book with a

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