Has modern neuroscience shown that free will is an illusion? Those who give an affirmative answer often argue as follows. The overt actions that have been studied in some recent experiments do not have corresponding consciously made decisions or conscious intentions among their causes. Therefore no overt actions have corresponding consciously made decisions or conscious intentions among their causes. This paper challenges this inference, arguing that it is unwarranted
Philosophical debates about free will have focused on determinism—a potential ‘threat from behind’ b...
While philosophers have worried about mental causation for centuries, worries about the causal relev...
Debates about the concept of Free Will date back to ancient times. About 40 years ago Benjamin Libet...
While the question whether free will exists or not has concerned philosophers for centuries, empiric...
Beckermann A. Neurobiological findings and free will : a philosophical perspective
The problem of free will is among the most fascinating and disputed questions throughout the history...
Abstract: In this paper, I will take into account and criticize two of the most celebrated neuroscie...
Is epiphenomenalism virtually entailed by the current empirical knowledge about how the mind/brain c...
We argue, contra Joshua Knobe in a companion chapter, that most people have an understanding of free...
Those who argue that free will is an illusion are wrong. They base their argument on scientific evid...
We offer a critical assessment of the “exclusion argument” against free will, which may be summarize...
<p>Even though at the beginning of the 1980s the results of the first neuroscience experiments<br> m...
Philosophical debates about free will have focused on determinism—a potential ‘threat from behind’ b...
While philosophers have worried about mental causation for centuries, worries about the causal relev...
Debates about the concept of Free Will date back to ancient times. About 40 years ago Benjamin Libet...
While the question whether free will exists or not has concerned philosophers for centuries, empiric...
Beckermann A. Neurobiological findings and free will : a philosophical perspective
The problem of free will is among the most fascinating and disputed questions throughout the history...
Abstract: In this paper, I will take into account and criticize two of the most celebrated neuroscie...
Is epiphenomenalism virtually entailed by the current empirical knowledge about how the mind/brain c...
We argue, contra Joshua Knobe in a companion chapter, that most people have an understanding of free...
Those who argue that free will is an illusion are wrong. They base their argument on scientific evid...
We offer a critical assessment of the “exclusion argument” against free will, which may be summarize...
<p>Even though at the beginning of the 1980s the results of the first neuroscience experiments<br> m...
Philosophical debates about free will have focused on determinism—a potential ‘threat from behind’ b...
While philosophers have worried about mental causation for centuries, worries about the causal relev...
Debates about the concept of Free Will date back to ancient times. About 40 years ago Benjamin Libet...