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Freedom Evolves
Publication year:
2003
ISBN:
0-670-03186-0
Pages:
347
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Table of Contents:
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Chapter 1: Natural Freedom
Learning What We Are
I Am Who I Am
The Air We Breathe
Dumbo's Magic Feather and the Peril of Paulina
Chapter 2: A Tool for Thinking About Determinism
Some Useful Oversimplifications
From Physics to Design in conway's Life World
Can We Get the Deus ex Machina ?
From Slow-motion Avoidance to Star Wars
The Birth of Evitability
Chapter 3: Thinking About Determinism
Possible Worlds
Causation
Austin's Putt
A Computer Chess Marathon
Events without Causes in a Deterministic Universe
Will the Future Be Like the Past?
Chapter 4: A Hearing for Libertarianism
The Appeal of Libertarianism
Where Should We Put the Much-needed Gap?
Kane's Mode of Indeterministic Decision-making
"If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything"
Beware of Prime Mammals
How Can It Be "Up to Me"?
Chapter 5: Where Does all the Design Come From?
Early Days
The Prisoner's Dilemma
E Pluribus Unum? Digression: The Threat of Genetic Determinism
Degrees of Freedom and the Search for Truth
Chapter 6: The Evolution of Open Minds
How Cultural Symbionts Turn Primates into Persons
The Diversity of Darwinian Explanations
Nice Tools, but You Still Have to Use Them
Chapter 7: The Evolution of Moral Agency
Benselfishness
Being Good in Order to Seem Good
Learning to Deal with Yourself
Our Costly Merit Badges
Chapter 8: Are You Out of the Loop?
Drawing the Wrong Moral
Whenever the Spirit Moves You
A Mind-writer's View
A Self of One's Own
Chapter 9: Bootstrapping Ourselves Free
How We Captured Reasons and Made Them Our Own
Psychic Engineering and the Arms Race of Rationality
With a Little Help from My Friends
Autonomy, Brainwashing, and Education
Chapter 10: The Future of Human Freedom
Holding the Line against Creeping Exculpation
"Thanks, I Needed That!"
Are We Freer Than We Want to Be?
Human Freedom Is Fragile
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