Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1: The Age of Neuroscience and the End of Freedom?

The Data on Neural Correlates of Consciousness — A Neuroscientific Theory of Cognition: The Global Workspace Model — The Burden of Proof and the Loss of Innocence — Have We Lost All Conscious Control? — Do We Now Need a Revised View of the Person? — Drawing Conclusions — A More Radical Entailment? — What Comes Next

Chapter 2. Growing Freedom? Complexity, Spontaneity, and Social Behaviors in Biological Evolution

Introduction — Studying the Evolution of Biological Novelty — The Means of Complexification in Natural History — The Emergence of Species — From Sociality to Culture — Culture as a New Type of Evolutionary Dynamic — First Conclusions

Chapter 3. Co-evolution, Mental Causality, and Human Action: Freedom and the Emergence of Culture

Introduction — The Architectonic of the Argument — Learning and Culture — Co-evolution — What is Right, and what Wrong, about Evolutionary Psychology? — The Self, Sociality, and Cognition — The Biological Birth of Spirit — Toward a “Gradualist” Theory of Freedom

Chapter 4. Forms of Freedom, As-If Freedom, and Asymptotic Freedom: A Challenge to Neurophilosophy

Kant and Compatibilism: The Last Word on Freedom? — Is Spontaneous Agency Sufficient for Freedom? — Agential Actions and Self-Determination — Incompatible but not Counterfactual: Conceptual Parameters for Talk of Freedom — The Doctrine of Gradual or Asymptotic Freedom — An Epistemological Aside — Transcendental Freedom — Freedom and Being Responsible for One’s Past — The Unexplored Option: Openings toward a Philosophy of Nature

Chapter 5. On Religion: A Speech to its Scientifically Cultured Despisers

The Theme of Freedom — To the Cultured Scientific Despisers of Religion — In-built Dangers in the “Science of Religion” — The Sciences — Schleiermacher and Theology — What Is the Religious Vision? — Conclusion

Chapter 6. Freedom and Transcendence

Freedom and the “More Than” of Human Action — Excursus: From Regulative to Constitutive — Imago Dei Correlations — Two Modes of Self-Transcendence — Freedom, Ground, and the Emergence of Spirit — Freedom and Anthropology — The Unity of the Person, Moral Responsibility, and the “Basic Orientation” — Retrospective and Conclusions

Index

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