Free Will Explained: How Science and Philosophy Converge to Create a Beautiful Illusion - Dan Barker

Free Will Explained: How Science and Philosophy Converge to Create a Beautiful Illusion

By Dan Barker

  • Release Date: 2019-09-10
  • Genre: Nonfiction
  • © 2019 Pitchstone Publishing

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Summary : Free Will Explained: How Science and Philosophy Converge to Create a Beautiful Illusion

A compelling essay on free will from an internationally recognized authority on atheism, and author of God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction.

Do we have free will? And if we don’t, why do we feel as if we do? In a godless universe governed by impersonal laws of cause and effect, are you responsible for your actions? Former evangelical minister Dan Barker (God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction) unveils a novel solution to the question that has baffled scientists and philosophers for millennia. He outlines the concept of what he calls “harmonic free will,” a two-dimensional perspective that pivots the paradox on its axis to show that there is no single answer—both sides are right. Free will is a useful illusion: not a scientific, but a social truth. 

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