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Sam Harris - Free Will, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Free Will

Av Sam Harris

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Beskrivning
The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab recently used fMRI data to show that some "conscious" decisions can be predicted up to 10 seconds before they enter awareness (long before the preparatory motor activity detected by Libet). Clearly, findings of this kind are difficult to reconcile with the sense that one is the conscious source of one's actions. The question of free will is no mere curio of philosophy seminars. A belief in free will underwrites both the religious notion of "sin" and our enduring commitment to retributive justice. The Supreme Court has called free will a "universal and persistent" foundation for our system of law. Any scientific developments that threatened our notion of free will would seem to put the ethics of punishing people for their bad behaviour in question.In Free Will Harris debates these ideas and asks whether or not, given what brain science is telling us, we actually have free will?
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-04-26
  • Mått: 143 x 203 x 8 mm
  • Vikt: 125 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 96
  • Förlag: Simon & Schuster
  • ISBN: 9781451683400
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Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, and Lying. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing has been published in over fifteen languages. Dr. Harris is cofounder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. Please visit his website at SamHarris.org.

Recensioner i media

"In this elegant and provocative book, Sam Harris demonstrates—with great intellectual ferocity and panache—that free will is an inherently flawed and incoherent concept, even in subjective terms. If he is right, the book will radically change the way we view ourselves as human beings." —V. S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, UCSD, and author of The Tell-Tale Brain

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9 recensioner, genomsnitt 3.7/5

  1. 2/5 Markus E

    I boken argumenterar han aldrig på djupet i frågan i "fria viljan" , utan enbart ytligt tankar om olika val och varför man gör dem eller inte. Inom olika områden argumenterar han begreppet av fria viljan men aldrig går in på de mer intrinsikala värdet och gå djupare in på de. Kanske han gör i andra böcker, men denna var inget bra om man vill ha djupare insikt...

  2. 5/5 Klas E

    En mycket välskriven och koncis bok som på ett elegant sätt redogör för det som brukar kallas "fri vilja", och hur detta kan förstås både filosofisk och vetenskapligt. Harris argumenterar övertygande för att "illusionen av fri vilja" i sig är en illusion och saknar såväl empirisk som fenomenologisk grund.

  3. 3/5 Nils
  4. 1/5 Peter B
  5. 5/5 Benjamin

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