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-{{review|Freedom Evolves|Daniel Dennett|June 21, 2005|Let’s Get Metaphysical}}
+{{a|book review}}{{br|Freedom Evolves}}<br>
-Freedom Evolves
+{{author|Daniel Dennett}}<br>
-Daniel C. Dennett
+''First published June 21, 2005''
+===Let’s Get Metaphysical==
+{{author|Daniel Dennett}} is not one to shy from grand philosophical pronouncements. Having declared the book closed on the Mind debate in “{{br|Consciousness Explained}}” (others are still offering odds) and having found beyond reasonable doubt for the Botanist in the case of Darwin vs. God in “{{dr|Darwin’s Dangerous Idea}}”, {{author|Daniel Dennett}} now purports to settle the third of the great metaphysical questions: Do we have free will? Not only that, indeed, but he purports - I think - to have found a method for achieving moral objectivity while he was at it.
-{{author|Daniel Dennett}} is not a man to shy from grand philosophical pronouncements. Having declared the book closed on the Mind debate in “{{br|Consciousness Explained}}” (others are still offering odds) and having found beyond reasonable doubt for the Botanist in the case of Darwin vs. God in “{{dr|Darwin’s Dangerous Idea}}”, {{author|Daniel Dennett}} now purports to settle the third of the great metaphysical questions: Do we have free will? Not only that, indeed, but he purports - I think - to have found a method for achieving moral objectivity while he was at it.
 For the most part, I’m a buyer: Dennett’s books are certainly fascinating, and in large part compelling, and this one is no exception.