Freedom Evolves

Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments...

Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments—drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy—that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally. In Freedom Evolves , Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature.

丹尼尔•丹内特（Daniel C.Dennett），哲学家、认知科学家，塔夫茨大学教授兼认知研究中心主任。专注于心智哲学和生物学哲学，尤其是意志、自由意志和泛进化论等主题。

著有《头脑风暴》(Brain Storm，1978)，《活动余地》(Elbow Room，1984)，《意向立场》(The Intentional Stance，1987)，《意识的解释》(Consciousness Explained，1991)，《达尔文的危险观念》(Darwin’s Dangerous Idea，1995，获美国国家图书奖和普利策奖提名)，《心智种种》(Kinds of Minds，1996)等。