Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Neuroscientists often consider free will to be an illusion. Contrary to this hypothesis, the contributions to this volume show that recent developments in neuroscience can also support the existence of free will. Firstly, the possibility of intentional consciousness is studied. Secondly, Libet’s experiments are discussed from this new perspective. Thirdly, the relationship between free will, causality and language is analyzed. This approach suggests that language grants the human brain a possibility to articulate a meaningful personal life. Therefore, human beings can escape strict biological determinism.Contributing author Sofia Bonicalzi has received funding from the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 754388 (LMUResearchFellows) and from LMUexcellent, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Bavaria under the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal Government and the Länder.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-01
Mått:155 x 235 x 12 mm
Vikt:438 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cognitive Science
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004372917

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Mer om författaren

Bernard Feltz, MD in Biology (1976) and PhD in Philosophy (1986), is Emeritus Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He has published many articles and books on the philosophy of biology, including Self-Organization and Emergence in Life Sciences (Springer, 2006).Marcus Missal is Professor of Neurosciences at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) where he obtained a PhD in Sciences in 1994. His area of interests are time perception in humans and animals, anticipation, and eye movements. He is an expert electrophysiologist and behavioral neuroscientist.Andrew Sims obtained a PhD in Philosophy from Deakin University in 2015 with a dissertation on the explanation of psychological delusion after brain damage. He writes on topics in the philosophy of mind ranging from the psychogenic explanation of monomania to the explanation of social polarisation in terms of rational choice theory. His contribution to this book is linked to a post-doctoral stay at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsThe AuthorsIntroductionBernard Feltz, Marcus Missal and Andrew SimsPart 1: Intention and Consciousness1 Perceptual Decision-Making and Beyond: Intention as Mental ImageryAndrew Sims and Marcus Missal2 Dual-System Theory and the Role of Consciousness in Intentional ActionMarkus Schlosser3 When Do Robots Have Free Will? Exploring the Relationships between (Attributions of) Consciousness and Free WillEddy Nahmias, Corey Allen and Bradley LoveallPart 2: Libet-Style Experiments4 Free Will and Neuroscience: Decision Times and the Point of No ReturnAlfred Mele5 Why Libet-Style Experiments Cannot Refute All Forms of LibertarianismLászló Bernáth6 Actions and IntentionsSofia BonicalziPart 3: Causality and Free Will7 The Mental, the Physical, and the InformationalAnna Drozdzewska8 Free Will, Language, and the Causal Exclusion ProblemBernard Feltz and Olivier SartenaerIndex of AuthorsIndex of Concepts