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Dialogue on Free Will and Science
Alfred R. Mele
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Description for Dialogue on Free Will and Science
Paperback. A Dialogue on Free Will and Science is a brief and intriguing book discussing the scientific challenges of free will. Presented through a dialogue, the format allows ideas to emerge and be clarified and then evaluated in a natural way. Engaging and accessible, it offers students a compelling look at free will and science. Num Pages: 128 pages, 2 B&W line drawings. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
In A Dialogue on Free Will and Science, renowned philosopher Alfred Mele explores the experiments in neuroscience and psychology that have been said to pose the greatest challenges to free will. He uses an imagined dialogue among several characters to make what is typically a complex topic more accessible and engaging for students. Guided by the question "How much power do these scientific challenges have?", the characters first consider what having free will means and then react to well-known experiments that question its existence, including work by Libet and Milgram and the bystander, dime, and Stanford prison experiments. Their discussions ... Read more
In A Dialogue on Free Will and Science, renowned philosopher Alfred Mele explores the experiments in neuroscience and psychology that have been said to pose the greatest challenges to free will. He uses an imagined dialogue among several characters to make what is typically a complex topic more accessible and engaging for students. Guided by the question "How much power do these scientific challenges have?", the characters first consider what having free will means and then react to well-known experiments that question its existence, including work by Libet and Milgram and the bystander, dime, and Stanford prison experiments. Their discussions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199329298
SKU
V9780199329298
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Ref
99-25
About Alfred R. Mele
Alfred R. Mele has been the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University since 2000. He is the author or coeditor of several books including Backsliding: Understanding Weakness of Will (2012), Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? (2010), Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will (2009), and Free Will and Luck (2006), ... Read more
Reviews for Dialogue on Free Will and Science
"The most engaging introduction to scientific challenges to free will that I have seen."
Benjamin McMyler, Texas A&M University "An up-to-the-minute discussion of a very hot topic by one of the foremost experts in the field."
Meghan Griffith, Davidson College "No other book makes such a wide range of important psychological studies so readily accessible for students of free will."
Bruce Waller, Youngstown ... Read more
Benjamin McMyler, Texas A&M University "An up-to-the-minute discussion of a very hot topic by one of the foremost experts in the field."
Meghan Griffith, Davidson College "No other book makes such a wide range of important psychological studies so readily accessible for students of free will."
Bruce Waller, Youngstown ... Read more