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Free agents : how evolution gave us free will

by Kevin J. Mitchell

Tracing the evolutionary origins of agency, this work examines how living organisms developed the capacity for purposeful choice. It analyses the biological foundations of human cognition to argue that free will is an evolved faculty rather than an illusion.

Accession 27662 ISBN 9780691226231 Publisher Princeton University Press
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