Freedom evolves /
Cómo pueden los humanos tomar decisiones genuinamente independientes si somos solo un grupo de células y genes en un mundo determinado por leyes científicas? Aquí, Daniel Dennett ofrece una apasionada defensa del libre albedrío. Pero en lugar de que la libertad sea una condición eterna e inmutable...
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New York :
Penguin Books,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 : NATURAL FREEDOM : Learning What We Are I Am Who I Am The Air We Breathe Dumbo's Magic Feather and the Peril of Paulina. Chapter 2 : A TOOL FOR THINKING ABOUT DETERMINISM : Some Useful Oversimplifications From Physics to Design in Conway's Life World Can We Get the Deus ex Machina?
- From Slow-motion Avoidance to Star Wars The Birth of Evitability. Chapter 3 : THINKING ABOUT DETERMINISM : Possible Worlds Causation Austin's Putt
- A Computer Chess Marathon Events without Causes in a Deterministic Universe Will the Future Be Like the Past?. Chapter 4 : A HEARING FOR LIBERTARIANISM : The Appeal of Libertarianism Where Should We Put the Much-needed Gap?
- Kane's Model of Indeterministic Decision-making "If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything" Beware of Prime Mammals How Can It Be "Up to Me"?. Chapter 5 : WHERE DOES ALL THE DESIGN COME FROM? : Early Days The Prisoner's Dilemma E Pluribus Unum?
- Digression: The Threat of Genetic Determinism Degrees of Freedom and the Search for Truth. Chapter 6 : THE EVOLUTION OF OPEN MINDS : How Cultural Symbionts Turn Primates into Persons The Diversity of Darwinian Explanations Nice Tools, but You Still Have to Use Them. Chapter 7 : THE EVOLUTION OF MORAL AGENCY : Benselfishness Being Good in Order to Seem Good Learning to Deal with Yourself Our Costly Merit Badges. Chapter 8 : ARE YOU OUT OF THE LOOP? : Drawing the Wrong Moral Whenever the Spirit Moves You A Mind-writer's View A Self of One's Own. Chapter 9 : BOOTSTRAPPING OURSELVES FREE : How We Captured Reasons and Made Them Our Own Psychic Engineering and the Arms Race of Rationality
- With a Little Help from My Friends Autonomy, Brainwashing, and Education. Chapter 10 : THE FUTURE OF HUMAN FREEDOM : Holding the Line against Creeping Exculpation "Thanks, I Needed That!" Are We Freer Than We Want to Be? Human Freedom Is Fragile.