Free will. Illusion or opportunity

Many discoveries in neuronac and social psychology are questioned by 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 whether it should not be made 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 defends modern compatibilist 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 decisions of other philosophical puzzles related to freedom: the problems of identity identity and mental causality.
The book is one of the deepest excursions into 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 research by the author.
Dmitry Borisovich Volkov - Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Co -Director of the Moscow Center for the Study of Consciousness at the Philosophy Faculty of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, specialist in the field of analytical philosophy, author of the Boston Zombie: D. Dennet and his theory of consciousness" (2012) and works on the problems of free will, identity and moral responsibility