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The science of free will

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"At first blush, free will seems obvious. Every day, people have the experience of making decisions, of choosing what to do. Planning a meeting or date, steering a car, ordering from a menu, accepting or declining an offer, playing a game, making a deal, voting, shopping, and much more -- all these confront the person with multiple alternative possibilities. People make choices, fully aware that they could just as well choose differently"-- Provided by publisher.

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Why does free will matter? -- What should a scientific theory of free will look like? -- Why free will evolved -- The time dimension: free will links past, present, and future -- Free will in the flesh: three agents -- Does free will mean random action? -- Wanting comes first -- What is choice? Understanding the multi-maybe future -- Do conscious thoughts cause behavior? -- How conscious thoughts cause behavior -- Meaning changes everything -- Free will is no free lunch -- Free will gone rogue: the mystery of self-defeating behavior -- What free will feels like -- Whether people believe in free will or not -- How children acquire free will -- Owning your actions as an individual -- How free will operates, in practice -- Desire to have or use free will? The question of innate drive for control -- Positive psychology and free will -- Summing up and looking ahead.

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Baumeister, Roy F. The science of free will

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:17:10.971477+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23644483

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
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