How Free Are You?: The Determinism Problem

by Ted Honderich

Book Overview

"How are minds connected to brains? Or rather, how are mental events connected to neural events? How is your thinking or awareness now, as you read this very sentence, related to what is going on in your brain? If you choose to stop now and do something else, maybe your duty, how is the choosing related to what is going on in your brain? That is the best and hardest question in the philosophy of mind. Little industries of philosophers and psychologists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192831399
• ISBN13: 9780192831392
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Good

I have been a firm believer in determinism for a very long time... And ive read my fair share of philosophical literature on the subject... I was a little disappointed with this book... I was expecting more... No new ideas but if you know nothing about determinism its a good start to look here... However, I feel that the articles in Poijmans, introduction to philosophy text book are better... This book did shed some new light for me on compatibalism... ie, some say that free will and determinism are compatibale because the agent wants what his deterministic nature wants.... and some say that they are not compatible because the agent did not originate his deterministic attributes, even though he does agree with them... The book also lifts the person back up after they have fallen into the mind quaking fear of determinism. It does a good job at that.. The idea of determinism, thanks to neurology, will be the next revolution in culture... Darwin has a rival for the spotlight... Because this theory is the next revolution in intellectual thought and because this book is at least an excellent introduction to determinism i give this book full stars... Watch for my book on determinism... ha ha!!!