Scientific Challenges to Free Will

A Companion to the Philosophy of Action

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 345-356

  Nahmias, Eddy ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolstering Libet's case "subjective experience of freedom, no more than an illusion; Indeterministic interactions at microphysical level no effect on the way things happen at neurobiological level; Mechanism, the view that mental phenomena explained in terms of component neurobiological parts and in terms of organization; Modular epiphenomenalism; Net effect of influx of scientific information a rejection of free will; Philosophical debates about free will whether free will compatible with determinism; Scientific challenges to free will; Wegner's focus on where people lack an experience of consciously willing a bodily movement that they in fact brought about

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EID: 84886003787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444323528.ch44     Document Type: Chapter

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