NEUROSCIENCE, FREE WILL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
NEUROSCIENCE, FREE WILL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
Author(s): Gardar ÁrnasonSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus
Keywords: free will; neuroscience; responsibility; determinism; reductionism; Libet experiments
Summary/Abstract: Neuroscientific challenges to free will work on at least three levels: there is a metaphysical level, an epistemological level, and an empirical level. In this paper I discuss the main neuroscientific challenges on each of these three levels. Three fundamental conditions for free will can also be placed on these levels, and I briefly discuss how these conditions can be met in the context of the neuroscientific challenges. In conclusion I strongly doubt that neuroscientific evidence can show free will not to exist at all.
Journal: TRAMES
- Issue Year: XV/2011
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 147-155
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English