Robert Sapolsky explains why the latest developments in neuroscience and psychology explode our conventional idea of Free Will. The book's chock-full of complex and often counter-intuitive ideas. It's also a joy to read. That's because Sapolsky is not only one of the world's most brilliant scientists, but also an immensely gifted writer who tells this important story with wit a...(展开全部)

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences. Robert Sapolsky’s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: we may not grasp t...(展开全部)

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 ...(展开全部)

Science Without Numbers caused a stir in philosophy on its original publication in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the ontology of mathematics and science. Hartry Field argues that we can explain the utility of mathematics without assuming it true. Part of the argument is that good mathematics has a special feature ("conservativeness") that allows it to be applied to...(展开全部)

德克•佩里布姆（1957— ） 康奈尔大学哲学与伦理学专业的“苏珊•林恩•塞奇”坐席教授，研究领域包括自由意志和道德责任、精神哲学、宗教哲学，以及伊曼纽尔•康德的作品。在线版《斯坦福大学哲学百科全书》中“行动理论”部分的合编者，并为该百科全书撰写词条。著作包括《没有自由意志的生活》（2001）、《意识与物理主义的前景》（2011）、《自由意志、能动性与生命的意义》（2014）等。

德克•佩里布姆（1957— ） 康奈尔大学哲学与伦理学专业的“苏珊•林恩•塞奇”坐席教授，研究领域包括自由意志和道德责任、精神哲学、宗教哲学，以及伊曼纽尔•康德的作品。在线版《斯坦福大学哲学百科全书》中“行动理论”部分的合编者，并为该百科全书撰写词条。著作包括《没有自由意志的生活》（2001）、《意识与物理主义的前景》（2011）、《自由意志、能动性与生命的意义》（2014）等。

Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some of them trivial, and some so consequential that they may change the course of our life, or even the course of history. But are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? Is the feeling that we could have made different decisions just an illusion? And ...(展开全部)