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   Jun 11, 2018 · According to Daniel Dennett, free will is an “ability to see probable futures – futures that seem like they’re going to happen – in time to take steps so that something else happens instead” (Closer to Truth 2014). Dennett is a compatibilist, meaning that he believes free will and determinism are compatible.

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   Apr 20, 2024 · With his groundbreaking work on consciousness, free will, and cognitive science, Dennett challenged longheld assumptions and sparked vital debates that reshaped how we view the mind. His fearless intellect, caring mentorship, and warm wit will be dearly missed.

4. direct.mit.edu › books › bookElbow Room : The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting - MIT Press

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   The MIT Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10470.001.0001. ISBN electronic: 9780262332026. In Special Collection: CogNet. Publication date: 2015. A landmark book in the debate over free will that makes the case for compatibilism. In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism.

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5. philosophy.stackexchange.com › questions › 106926Dennett vs Sapolsky on free will: A clash over different claims?

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   Jan 1, 2024 · On a recent Youtube episode of Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal Daniel Dennett, author and Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts, discusses his views of Robert Sapolsky's recent work around free will.

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   Does Daniel Dennett have a book on free will?

   • Daniel Dennett’s and Sam Harris’ Confrontation on the Problem of Free Will. Zahra Khazaei, Nancey Murphy & Tayyebe Gholami - 2020 - Journal of Philosophical Theological Research 22 (2):27-48. No references found. : In his book Free Will Sam Harris tries to persuade us to abandon the morally pernicious idea of free will.

   Daniel C. Dennett, Reflections on Sam Harris' "Free Will" - PhilPapers

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   What does Dennett say about punishment?

   • Dennett is a consequentialist viewing punishment as a tool for discouraging bad behavior and reward as a tool for encouraging good behavior. The type of free will which can fulfill this function is a “free will worth wanting” (Dennett 2003 ). According to Dennett, the primary utilitarian function of punishment is deterrence.

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   Why was Dennett so controversial?

   • Underlying the increasingly acrimonious debate between the scholars was a natural friction in the scientific and philosophical communities over which side merited more credibility on the subject of evolution. Mr. Dennett also plunged into controversy with his strident views on atheism.

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   How did Dennett explain the evolution of the brain?

   • By the 1990s, Mr. Dennett had increasingly sought to explain the development of the brain — and illusions of a separate consciousness and free will — in terms of the evolution of human beings from other animal life. He believed that natural selection was the overwhelming factor in this evolution.

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   Download. XML. In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup ...

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   Apr 19, 2024 · Daniel C. Dennett, one of the most widely read and debated American philosophers, whose prolific works explored consciousness, free will, religion and evolutionary biology, died on Friday...

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   The following contribution articulates and defends a more sophisticated model of free will that is not only consistent with neuroscience and introspection but also grounds a variety of responsibility that justifies both praise and blame, reward and punishment.