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020			_a9780674979581 (hardback)
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082	0	4	_a123.5 LIS _223 _b015974
100	1		_aList, Christian, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWhy free will is real / _cChristian List.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2019.
300			_a215 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent _btxt
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia _bn
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [187]-201) and index.
505	0		_aFree will -- Three challenges -- In defence of intentional agency -- In defence of alternative possibilities -- In defence of causal control.
520			_aPhilosophers have argued about the nature and existence of free will since at least Plato. Today, many scientists and some scientifically minded philosophers are skeptical that it exists, especially when it is understood to require the ability to choose between alternative possibilities. If the laws of physics govern everything that happens in the world, they argue, then how can our choices be free? Believers in free will must be misled by habit, sentiment, or religious doctrine. In this provocative book, Christian List defies the scientific orthodoxy and presents a bold new defense of free will in the same naturalistic terms that are usually deployed against it. Unlike those who defend free will by giving up the idea that it requires alternative possibilities to choose from, he retains this idea as central, resisting the tendency to defend free will only by watering it down.--
650		0	_aFree will and determinism.
650		0	_aPhysical laws.
650		0	_aPhysics _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aReligion and science.
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