Finding Freedom Through Complexity

摘要

Since the 17th century one of the central problems of philosophy has been to make sense of certain phenomena that lack any obvious place in our modern scientific view of the world-phenomena like colors as we experience them, norms of thought and action, and free and responsible action. Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown's fascinating Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? touches on all of these phenomena, but its focus is on the third, on the difficult problem of understanding how such action might be possible in light of our growing scientific knowledge about humans and the world they live in.