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Record Nr.

UNINA9910367627903321

Autore

Feltz Bernard

Titolo

Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience / / Edited by Bernard Feltz; Marcus Missal; Andrew Cameron Sims

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2019

Leiden; ; Boston : , : Brill | Rodopi, , 2020

ISBN

90-04-40996-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Value Inquiry Book Series ; ; 338

Disciplina

123

Soggetti

Free will and determinism

Causation

Neurosciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- The Authors -- Introduction / Bernard Feltz , Marcus Missal and Andrew Sims -- Intention and Consciousness -- Perceptual Decision-Making and Beyond: Intention as Mental Imagery / Andrew Sims and Marcus Missal -- Dual-System Theory and the Role of Consciousness in Intentional Action / Markus Schlosser -- When Do Robots have Free Will? Exploring the Relationships between (Attributions of) Consciousness and Free Will / Eddy Nahmias , Corey Hill Allen and Bradley Loveall -- Libet-Style Experiments -- Free Will and Neuroscience: Decision Times and the Point of No Return / Alfred Mele -- Why Libet-Style Experiments Cannot Refute All Forms of Libertarianism / László Bernáth -- Actions and Intentions / Sofia Bonicalzi -- Causality and Free Will -- The Mental, the Physical and the Informational / Anna Drozdzewska -- Free Will, Language, and the Causal Exclusion Problem / Bernard Feltz and Olivier Sartenaer -- Back Matter -- Index of Authors.

Sommario/riassunto

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.