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9780812694062

Human Freedom After Darwin A Critical Rationalist View

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812694062

  • ISBN10:

    0812694066

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-11-19
  • Publisher: Open Court
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Arguing that philosophical discussion of human freedom has been transformed by developments in modern science, especially evolutionary biology, the author outlines a naturalistic account of freedom and creativity by using examples from hypnosis, brainwashing, and creative leaps in thought.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Notes to the Reader xi
Introduction 1(2)
PART ONE: Naturalism 3(160)
Critical Rationalism and Science
5(20)
How to Build a World-View
25(16)
Betwixt Chance and Necessity
41(18)
Darwinism: Some Metaphysical Implications
59(58)
Anti-Saltationism
61(3)
Materialism
64(10)
Idealism and Panpsychism
74(5)
God and the Soul
79(9)
Epiphenomenalism
88(15)
Control-Motor Dualism
103(9)
Consciousness and the C-Factor
112(5)
Genes, grains; and Creativity
117(46)
Genes and Behaviour
118(4)
Baldwin Effect
122(10)
A First Step up the Dawkins Ladder
132(2)
Large Hominid Brains
134(9)
Downward Causation and Meta-Capacity
143(8)
Evolution and the I-Factor
151(7)
Modularity
158(5)
PART TWO: Freedom 163(94)
Historical Review I: Hobbes, Descartes, Schopenhauer, Kant
165(30)
Freedom and Heteronomy: Hobbes
165(5)
Freedom and Volition: Descartes and Schopenhauer
170(10)
Freedom and Morality: Kant
180(15)
Historical Review II: Spinoza
195(26)
Preview
195(3)
``Conquer Fortune''
198(3)
Baleful Philosophical Ideas
201(8)
``Transcend Fortune''
209(5)
Immortality
214(7)
Appendix Spinoza on Immortality: Standard and Dissenting Views
217(4)
A Third View of Human Freedom
221(36)
Three Freedom-Scales
222(6)
Transcend Fortune Revisited
228(4)
A ``World'' of One's Own?
232(6)
``Conquer Fortune'' Revisited
238(6)
A Round-up of Loose Ends
244(13)
Epilogue Mind and Body 257(40)
References 297(38)
Index 335

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