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Tables of Contents for Elbow Room
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Please Don't Feed the Bugbears
1
19
The Perennial, Gripping Problem
1
6
The Bogeymen
7
3
Sphexishness and Other Worries
10
7
Overview
17
3
Making Reason Practical
20
30
Where Do Reasons Come From?
20
6
Semantic Engines, Perpetual Motion Machines, and a Defective Intuition Pump
26
8
Reflection, Language, and Consciousness
34
9
Community, Communication, and Transcendence
43
7
Control and Self-Control
50
24
``Due to Circumstances Beyond our Control''
50
2
Simple Control and Simple Self-Control
52
5
Agentless Control and Our Concept of Causation
57
4
Agents in Competition
61
5
The Uses of Disorder
66
4
``Let Yourself Go''
70
4
Self-Made Selves
74
27
The Problem of the Disappearing Self
74
7
The Art of Self-Definition
81
11
Trying Our Luck
92
8
Overview
100
1
Acting Under the Idea of Freedom
101
30
How Can You Go On Deliberating at a Time Like This?
101
6
Designing the Perfect Deliberator
107
8
Real Opportunities
115
8
``Avoid,'' ``Avoidable,'' ``Inevitable''
123
8
``Could Have Done Otherwise''
131
22
Do We Care Whether We Could Have Done Otherwise?
131
8
What We Care About
139
5
The Can of Worms
144
9
Why Do We Want Free Will?
153
20
Nihilism Neglected
153
3
Diminished Responsibility and the Specter of Creeping Exculpation
156
9
The Dread Secret Denied
165
8
Bibliography
173
12
Index
185