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Elbow Room (Dennett book)

Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting is a 1984 book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett in which the author argues for a compatibilist conception of free will. Based on the John Locke Lectures that Dennett presented in 1983, it is his third book.

Reception
The philosopher Peter Van Inwagen stated in his review of the book that "despite its considerable merits, Elbow Room has nothing to tell us about whether the thesis that we are morally accountable for the results of our acts is compatible with the thesis that those acts and their results are logical consequences of the laws of nature and certain propositions about the remote past." Gary Watson found the book's style engaging and its writing "generally well informed", though overall, "So much remains sketchy that it is often difficult to appraise the result." In the evaluation of David H. Sandford, Dennett's critique of one variety of free will as not worth wanting failed to establish its conclusion. However, Sandford concluded that overall, Dennett's project of delineating kinds of free will and "finding fresh reasons why some are or are not worth wanting" was a worthwhile one to continue. == Editions ==
Editions
• Dennett, Daniel (2015). Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/2215460. ==References==
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