How Physics Makes Us Free

ISBN-13: 9780190090586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 290 str.

J. T. Ismael

Recenzje

It is very well written, in a punchy style that often makes it a page-turner...we wholeheartedly recommend this delightful and richly rewarding book to anyone interested in free will and the self.

O autorze

J.T. Ismael is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She earned her Ph.D at Princeton University and has also taught at Stanford University and the University of Arizona for many years. She has held fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the National Humanities Center, a QEII from the Australian Research Council and the Templeton Foundation. In addition to How Physics Makes Us Free, she is the author of The Situated Self (OUP 2007) and Essays on Symmetry (2001). She splits her time between Manhattan and the Sonoran Desert, where she is happier than anywhere else.