Free Will Explained

How Science and Philosophy Converge to Create a Beautiful Illusion

By: Dan Barker

Narrated by: Dan Barker

This audiobook features a compelling essay on free will from an internationally recognized authority on atheism and author of God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction.

Do we have free will? And if we don’t, why do we feel as if we do? In a godless universe governed by impersonal laws of cause and effect, are you responsible for your actions? Former evangelical minister Dan Barker and author of God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction unveils a novel solution to the question that has baffled scientists and philosophers for millennia. He outlines the concept of what he calls “harmonic free will", a two-dimensional perspective that pivots the paradox on its axis to show that there is no single answer - both sides are right. Free will is a useful illusion - not a scientific, but a social truth.

©2018 Daniel Barker (P)2019 Pitchstone Publishing

Some good arguments…

The book had some good but it seems this book is to promote his music. Not nearly through enough for me.

Repackaged compatibilism

This repackages compatibilism for left wing activists and revolutionaries. You cannot get peace from believing in free will.