Neuroscientific challenges to free will and responsibility

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 419-423

  Roskies, Adina ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROETHICS; NEUROSCIENCE;

BRAIN; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ETHICS; FREEDOM; HUMAN; INTUITION; LEGAL ASPECT; MORALITY; NEUROSCIENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSIBILITY;

BRAIN; CRIMINAL LAW; EMOTIONS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; METAPHYSICS; MORALS; NEUROSCIENCES; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 33747873670     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.07.011     Document Type: Article

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