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Elbow room : the varieties of free will worth wanting

In Elbow Room, Dennett shows how the classical formulation of the problem in philosophy depend on misuses of imagination, and he disentangles the philosophical problems of real interest from the "family of anxieties" they get enmeshed in-imaginary agents, bogeymen, and dire prospects that seem to threaten our freedom
Print Book, English, ©1984
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©1984
x, 200 pages ; 24 cm
9780262040778, 9780262540421, 0262040778, 0262540428
10753084
Please don't feed the bugbears
Making reason practical
Control and self-control
Self-made selves
Acting under the idea of freedom
"Could have done otherwise"
Why do we want free will?
"A Bradford book."
Based on the author's presentation of the John Locke lectures at Oxford, 1983
Based on the author's presentation of the John Locke lectures at Oxford, 1983