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x, 200 pages ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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"A Bradford book." |
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Based on the author's presentation of the John Locke lectures at Oxford, 1983 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index |
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Please don't feed the bugbears -- Making reason practical -- Control and self-control -- Self-made selves -- Acting under the idea of freedom -- "Could have done otherwise" -- Why do we want free will? |
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In Elbow Room, Dennett shows how the classical formulation of the problem in philosophy depend on misuses of imagination, and he disentangles the philosophical problems of real interest from the "family of anxieties" they get enmeshed in-imaginary agents, bogeymen, and dire prospects that seem to threaten our freedom |
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Based on the author's presentation of the John Locke lectures at Oxford, 1983 |
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Free will and determinism
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