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Galen Strawson (p94) "Luck Swallows Everything" determinism "is pessimist because it turns the human image into a puppet image. And a puppet image of humanity is one of the hallmarks of pessimism."
Here's where I want to fight with him. See above, the Dennett (and Minsky) view that being a puppet is OK, just gotta get used to it.
Doesn't believe in free will (see interview in A Very Bad Wizard)
Interestingly, his father PE Strawson was also a philosopher who wrote on free will and objectification. PE thought treating humans as determined causal objects was bad; his son disagrees, interesting ti