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Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher: Clarendon Press

I've read Dennett's Elbow Room, but it was about 3 years ago (and by “read” I mean I skimmed the main arguments). By John Casti, Leena Ilmola, Petri Rouvinen, and Markku Wilenius. By Daniel Dennett; Resonant Leadership. That doesn't mean that it is sufficient for moral responsibility, or that it is “all the freedom worth wanting”. By Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKeel. Our provocative ascription of free will to elementary particles is deliberate, since our theorem asserts that if experimenters have a certain freedom, then particles have exactly the same kind of freedom. Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting is a near exemplar of intellectual investigation. Some scientists like to dismiss the intuitive belief in free will as an exercise in self-delusion — a simple-minded bit of “confabulation,” as Crick put it. Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting. But, falling in line with Libet and other neuroscientists that have made similar claims, Harris refuses to confront many of the arguments that philosophers doing work on free will have offered.