How does the neuroscience of decision making bear on our understanding of moral responsibility and free will?
This review considers recent work in neuroscience that has been thought to challenge views of free will. I argue that these experiments do little to directly undermine the belief that we have free will. However, evidence for mechanism and automatic behaviors may cause us to rethink some commonsensical notions of what is required for acting freely.
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, United States. adina.roskies@dartmouth.edu
Adina L
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D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009014:Morals; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000639:trends*; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010684:Philosophy