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Free Will: A Very Short Introduction
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April 25, 2018
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May 29, 2018
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"Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some of them trivial, and some so con…more

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Nigel Bamber
May 07, 2018 rated it did not like it
I found myself getting extremely annoyed with Thomas Pink. In fact, by the end of the book, he had got so far up my nose, I'm sure he could see out of my ears.

His arguments were very dry, and extremely repetitive, for someone who had a lot to fit into a “Very Short Introduction”. But worse than that, his position appeared to be that as causal determinism, and hence lack of human free will, felt wrong from an intuitive and common sense point of view, there must be a sound argument against it. Per
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Eduardo Blasco
Aug 09, 2019 marked it as to-read
Dennis Webster
Jul 04, 2021 rated it really liked it