Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power

by John Rogers Searle

Book Overview

Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles. How can we resolve the conflict between these two visions?

In Freedom and Neurobiology, the philosopher John Searle discusses the possibility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231137532
• ISBN13: 9780231137539
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher