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Freedom Evolves is a 2003 popular science and philosophy book by Daniel C. Dennett. Dennett describes the book as an installment of a lifelong philosophical project, earlier parts of which were The Intentional Stance, Consciousness Explained, and Elbow Room. It attempts to give an account of free will and moral responsibility that is ...
- United States
- Daniel C. Dennett
- February 2003
- Viking Books
Jan 27, 2004 · Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Freedom Evolves (Viking) and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He lives with his wife in North Andover, Massachusetts, and has a daughter, a son, and a grandson.
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- Penguin Books
- $16.52
Jan 1, 2003 · In Freedom Evolves, Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature. 368 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 2003.
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About Freedom Evolves. Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers “yes!” Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality.
- Paperback
Jan 27, 2004 · Freedom Evolves is Dennett’s effort to ground our traditional notions of morality with the freedom of choice that science shows we truly have, the choice to avoid harmful acts and the choice to conduct ourselves so as to collaborate socially with our neighbors to achieve a better balance in our mutual, competing interests.
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Feb 10, 2003 · Freedom Evolves (2003) is the third volume in Dan Dennett’s quintet of philosophical works devoted to showing the grandeur in the view of life promoted by Charles Darwin’s discovery that all aspects of life derive from “slowly and beautifully adapting each form to the most complex relations of life.” (Darwin, Origin of Species by Natural Selection, p. 469.)
- Daniel C. Dennett
