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  • Published: 23 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529920062
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $27.99
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Determined

Life Without Free Will




The legendary author of Behave shows that free will can not exist and explores the radical and disturbing implications

What if free will is an illusion? In Determined one of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour overturns one of our most powerful beliefs – that we are the authors of our own actions – and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.

As Robert Sapolsky shows, everything we think and do is caused by the luck of our biology and the influence of our environment, and ultimately both are beyond our control. In a world without free will, we must completely rethink what we mean by choice, responsibility, morality and justice. Sapolsky’s extraordinary book does exactly this, guiding us toward a profoundly fairer, more humane way of living together.

  • Published: 23 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529920062
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $27.99
Categories:

About the author

Robert M Sapolsky

Robert M. Sapolsky holds degrees from Harvard and Rockefeller Universities and is currently a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University and a Research Associate with the Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya. He is the author of The Trouble with Testosterone, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (both finalists for the LA Times Book Award), and A Primate's Memoir. Sapolsky has contributed to Natural History, Discover, Men's Health, and Scientific American, and is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant.

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