The book Free Will and Evolution defends the old notion of free will, according to which such a will is incompatible with determinism and not identical with mere indeterminism. The defense is made from an entirely secular evolutionary perspective. The theory of evolution - properly considered - is argued to be fully compatible with a belief in in a little bit of free will. Moreover, it is claimed that a complete denial normally contains a kind of contradiction. Not a logical contradiction, but a so-called performative contradiction. The denial argued for contradicts the very existence of argumentative discourses.
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Ingvar Johansson (b. 1943) is since 2008 professor emeritus in theoretical philosophy at Umeå University, Sweden. Apart from work in Swedish philosophy departments, from 2002 to 2008 he worked in the German research institute IFOMIS. He has published three books in English: A Critique of Karl Popper's Methodology (1975), Ontological Investigations. An Inquiry into the Categories of Nature, Man and Society (1989, 2004), and (with a co-author) Medicine & Philosophy. A Twenty-First Century Introduction (2008).
