If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.