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Baggini does a good job of showing that experiments like libet’s do not disprove free will

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Occasionally this is a little misleading

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The result is a useful correction of what the author terms the myths of free will commonlyheld beliefs that are more the product of the tortured and protracted history of the discussion than of any useful understanding

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Also at several points i wanted to read about how we might determine responsibility for negligence

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This is a thoroughly excellent book which argues for a compatibilist view of free will that is to say that there is no inherent contradiction between free will and causal determinism and in fact determinism may be necessary for free will

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This concept may seem strange at first particularly in the english speaking world where the popular notion of free will tends to be one of extreme existential freedom nevertheless julian baggini shows that although this notion of free will may not be true that doesnt mean that free will itself doesnt exist

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Most of the supposed insuperable obstacles to fw turn out to apply to artificial senses that have no role to play in normal life

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For example the requirement that a decision involving fw should only involve conscious steps can certainly not be met but jb shows that we are all totally accustomed to unconscious steps in every thought we have or action we take so such a requirement can be no part of our intuitive sense of fw