{"id":9586,"date":"2025-06-20T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:10:36","slug":"determined-a-science-of-life-without-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/?p=9586","title":{"rendered":"Determined : a science of life without free will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mahidol.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/66MU_INST\/1lpgsbf\/alma991005216390209231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9484\" src=\"http:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/67840-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>AUTHOR\u00a0 <\/strong>Sapolsky, Robert M.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALL NO <\/strong>BJ1461 S241d 2023\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPRINT\u00a0<\/strong> New York : Penguin Press, 2023<\/p>\n<p><strong>[For MU Students and Staff can request here]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/widgets.ebscohost.com\/prod\/customlink\/ill\/index.php?client=s4067941_Campus_web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7115 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/BD.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u201cExcellent . . . Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.\u201d \u2013<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Wall Street Journal<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\"><\/p>\n<p>One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Behave<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">, mounts a devastating scientific and philosophical case against free will\u2014an argument with profound consequences<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Robert Sapolsky\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Behave<\/span>, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: we may not grasp exactly how nature and nurture create the physics and chemistry that cause all human behavior, but that doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t exist. In\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Determined<\/span>, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a brilliant (and in his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self who tells our biology what to do.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Determined<\/span>\u00a0offers a marvelous synthesis of what we know about consciousness\u2014the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life. One by one, Sapolsky takes out all the major arguments for free will, cutting a path through the thickets of chaos theory and quantum physics. But as Sapolsky acknowledges, it\u2019s sometimes impossible to uncouple from our zeal to judge people, including ourselves.\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Determined<\/span>\u00a0applies this new understanding to some of our most essential questions around punishment, morality, and living well together. Most of all, Sapolsky argues that while accepting the reality about free will is monumentally difficult, it will make for a much more humane world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Determined-Science-Life-without-Free\/dp\/0525560971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Determined-Science-Life-without-Free\/dp\/0525560971<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUTHOR\u00a0 Sapolsky, Robert M. CALL NO BJ1461 S241d 2023\u00a0 IMPRINT\u00a0 New York : Penguin Press, 2023 [For MU Students and Staff can request here] &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2081],"class_list":["post-9586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-book-releases","tag-determination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9587,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions\/9587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th\/newresources\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}