PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
Speaker: Adina Roskies
Title: Free will in the age of neuroscience
Abstract: Philosophers have long struggled with the problem of free will; more recently neuroscientists have claimed to be able to speak to this longstanding problem. I review some of the recent work in neuroscience that purports to bear on the problem of free will, and argue that although neuroscience can contribute to our understanding, it cannot resolve the problem of free will without recourse to philosophy.
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PPIG: Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Group
Room G16, 7 Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9AL