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Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will

Alfred R. Mele

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Description for Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will Hardcover. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPQ; PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 138 x 181 x 14. Weight in Grams: 210.
Does free will exist? The question has fueled heated debates spanning from philosophy to psychology and religion. The answer has major implications, and the stakes are high. To put it in the simple terms that have come to dominate these debates, if we are free to make our own decisions, we are accountable for what we do, and if we aren't free, we're off the hook. There are neuroscientists who claim that our decisions are made unconsciously and are therefore outside of our control and social psychologists who argue that myriad imperceptible factors influence even our minor decisions to ... Read more

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Hardback

Publication date

2014

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Condition

New

Number of Pages

112

Place of Publication

New York, United States

ISBN

9780199371624

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V9780199371624

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About Alfred R. Mele

Alfred R. Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of eight previous Oxford books, including Free Will and Luck (2006), Effective Intentions (2009), Backsliding (2012), and A Dialogue on Free Will and Science (2013). He also is the editor or co-editor of five OUP books, including The ... Read more

Reviews for Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will

A must read for all who are concerned with free will.
Prabuddha Bharata
Both serious and fun
Theology, Robin Gill
Short and businesslike... a model of accessible philosophical argument
New Statesman, Rowan Williams
... his book is a model of accessible philosophical argument.
New Statesman
Alfred Mele's beautifully written and easily accessible ... Read morebook is a perfect tonic to the many recent claims by scientists that there is no such thing as free will. Mele has written a book for everyone, including specialists in the sciences and in philosophy, as well as a much wider audience. Indeed, any thoughtful layperson will profit from reading this book, learning first why a range of scientific studies are taken to prove that no one has free will, and then why these studies actually fail to do so. Free is interdisciplinary inquiry at its finest. Mele truly shows how contemporary philosophy and the sciences can learn from one another, and why doing so is so very enriching.
Michael McKenna, University of Arizona
Mele provides a devastating critique of the typical grounds for skepticism about free will that arise from work in neuroscience and psychology. Even better, Mele's discussion is straightforward and accessible to non-specialists and specialists alike. It is the first thing anyone should read to get a sense of the state of play on the relevance of science to questions of free will.
Manuel Vargas, University of San Francisco
As director of the Big Questions on Free Will project and author of many books on the topic, Al Mele has been at the forefront of contemporary philosophers exploring the implications of recent research in neuroscience and psychology for philosophical debates about free will. In Free, he surveys the key results of these explorations in an accessible book that will engage students and non-specialists, while at the same time providing a useful overview of the issues for specialists as well. New research in neuroscience and psychology forces us to refine our thinking about free will. But Mele makes a strong case that this research does not undermine all modern views about it, and he does so in straightforward, understandable discussions of the research and its implications in this short, informative book.
Robert Kane, University of Texas at Austin
Whether readers agree with [the] conclusion, they will in any event be stimulated by the arguments in this lucid and accessible book.
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