Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index.
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The place of selves in the natural order -- What am I? -- The rise of the self-governor -- The unity of self -- Appendix for slackers -- The place of action in the natural order -- How can I be free if my actions are determined by physical laws? The consequence argument -- How can I be free if my actions are caused by things outside of my control? Causation -- The open future -- The paradox of predictability -- Fatalism -- Self-constitution: the making of the self.
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"Ismael provides a deeply informed account of what physics tells us about ourselves. The result is a vision that is abstract, alien, illuminating, and-Ismael argues-affirmative of most of what we all believe about our own freedom."c--Amazon.
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