Despite its limitations, I would recommend Mitchell’s book as a “gateway” drug for anyone who is stuck in a reductionist-materialist paradigm.
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Mitchell points out that “there is nothing in the laws of physics that rules out the possibility of agency or free will, a priori.”
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If there is no free will, you can’t say “I didn’t do it” if sociologically, you have a higher probability of doing it than someone else might.
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Given that both Pinker and Horgan are Darwinian materialists, their coldness toward the idea that there is no free will is worth keeping an eye on.
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It appears that materialists have not been able to simply disprove free will, so Mitchell seems to be trying to shape an evolution theory to fit it.
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