Free will. Illusion or opportunity. Volkov D.

Many discoveries in neuronaus and social psychology are questioning the presence of free will. They show that the actions of people are determined by the social context and unconscious conditions of the brain. But does it not follow from this that a person can never make decisions himself? And that we just have no alternatives to actions? And if so, if freedom of will is an illusion, is it possible to consider other people responsible for behavior? The book allows you to find answers to these complex confusing questions. In it, the author protects the modern compatibiral theory - the position according to which freedom and responsibility are compatible with modern scientific ideas about the structure of the world. In addition, it also proposes solutions to other philosophical puzzles related to freedom: the problems of identity and mental causality.

The book is one of the deepest excursions to the analytical philosophy of the late XX - early XXI centuries. It presents the views of modern Western and Russian philosophers. And also has developed its own theory, which can be called the narrative theory of freedom and responsibility. This is the result of many years of studies of the author.

Dmitry Borisovich Volkov - Doctor of Philosophy, Council of the Moscow Center for the Study of Consciousness at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosova, specialist in the field of analytical philosophy, author of the book “Boston Zombie: D. Dennet and his theory of consciousness” (2012) and works on the problems of free will, identity and moral responsibility.