Science and Human Freedom

1.Matter in Motion: the scientific image of the world.- 1.1. Atomism from Democritus to Feynman.- 1.2. Primitive ontology.- 1.3. Dynamical structure.- 1.4. Probabilities and the direction of time.- 1.5. Beyond Classical Mechanics: classical field theory.- 1.6. From Field Theory to Relativity Physics.- 1.7. From Statistical Mechanics to Quantum Mechanics.- 2. How Science Explains: scientific explanations and their limits.- 2.1. The Location Problem and Its Solution: Functionalism.- 2.2. What Scientific Explanations Achieve and What Their Limits Are.- 2.3. What Are Laws of Nature?.- 2.4. Why Determinism in Science is Not Opposed to Free Will.- 3. Why the Mind Matters: the manifest image of the world.- 3.1. Sensory Qualities as Problem for the Scientific Image.- 3.2. Normativity as the Focal Point.- 3.3. The Scientific and the Manifest Image.- 3.4. The Synoptic View.- 3.5. A Twofold Conception of Freedom.