Dumbo's magic feather and the peril of Paulina
A tool for thinking about determinism
Some useful oversimplifications
From physics to design in Conway's life world
Can we get the Deus ex machina?
From slow-motion avoidance to Star Wars
Thinking about determinism
A computer chess marathon
Events without causes in a deterministic universe
Will the future be like the past?
A hearing for libertarianism
The appeal of libertarianism
Where should we put the much-needed gap?
Kane's model of indeterministic decision-making
"If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything"
How can it be "up to me"?
Where does all the design come from?
Digression: the threat of genetic determinism
Degrees of freedom and the search for truth
The evolution of open minds
How cultural symbionts turn primates into persons
The diversity of Darwinian explanations
Nice tools, but you still have to use them
The evolution of moral agency
Being good in order to seem good
Learning to deal with yourself
Whenever the spirit moves you
Bootstrapping ourselves free
How we captured reasons and made them our own
Psychic engineering and the arms race of rationality
With a little help from my friends
Autonomy, brainwashing, and education
The future of human freedom
Holding the line against creeping exculpation
Are we freer than we want to be?
Human freedom is fragile.