Ideas from 'Elbow Room: varieties of free will' by Daniel C. Dennett [1984], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Elbow Room - Free will worth wanting' by Dennett,Daniel C. [MIT 1999,0-262-54042-8]].

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

3798	An overexamined life is as bad as an unexamined one

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

3801	Rationality requires the assumption that things are either for better or worse

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / c. Possible but inconceivable

3802	Why pronounce impossible what you cannot imagine?

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 2. Causal Justification

3795	Causal theories require the "right" sort of link (usually unspecified)

16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents

3797	I am the sum total of what I directly control

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

3803	Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own?

3800	You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [PG]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

3791	Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world

3794	Foreknowledge permits control

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 3. Intentional Stance

3796	The active self is a fiction created because we are ignorant of our motivations