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The Experimental Approach to Free Will - Freedom in the Laboratory (Hardcover)
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The Experimental Approach to Free Will - Freedom in the Laboratory (Hardcover)
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Recently, psychologists and neurobiologists have conducted
experiments taken to show that human beings do not have free will.
Many, including a number of philosophers, assume that, even if
science has not decided the free will question yet, it is just a
matter of time. In The Experimental Approach to Free Will, Katherin
A. Rogers accomplishes several tasks. First, canvasing the
literature critical of these recent experiments (or of conclusions
drawn from them) and adding new criticisms of her own, she shows
why these experiments should not undermine belief in human freedom
- even robust, libertarian freedom. Indeed, many of the experiments
do not even connect with any philosophical understanding of free
will. Through this discussion, she generates a long list of
problems - ethical as well as practical - facing the attempt to
study free will experimentally. With these problems highlighted,
she shows that even in the distant future, supposing the brain
sciences to have advanced far beyond where they are today, it will
likely be impossible to settle the question of free will
experimentally. She concludes that, since philosophy has not, and
science cannot, settle the question of free will, it is more
reasonable to suppose that humans do indeed have freedom. Brings
together, and adds to, criticisms of recent experiments (or
conclusions drawn from them) which supposedly show that human
beings do not have free will Analyzes recent experiments supposedly
related to human freedom through the lens of a philosophically
informed portrait of a robust, libertarian free choice Develops a
long list of problems - both practical and ethical - facing the
experimental study of human freedom Proposes a thought experiment
set in a distant future of advanced brain science to show that it
is likely impossible for science ever to settle the question of
free will.
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