Deliberation and Reason

This book is about how we decide what to do. We feel that we make free decisions, but we know that our brains are objects in the physical world, bound by the laws of physics. The book offers a novel way out of this age-old dilemma. We are not really free, but that does not matter because we can still see ourselves as if we were free. Merely seeing ourselves like that is good enough. It can support our self-conception as creatures who are free as well as rational. And it makes room for the feeling that we have of being free and in control of our lives.