Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky
Published 2024 · 145,475 words · about 13 hours at an average pace
How hard is Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will to read?
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will scores 62 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Neuroscience and philosophy vocabulary, glossed as it goes.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Loose, chatty sentences carrying difficult material.
- Abstraction: 75 out of 100
- Sustained philosophical argument grounded in biology.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Very dense; chaos theory, emergence, neuroscience and criminal law in one book.
How Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is regarded
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will holds a literary regard score of 52 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.