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The Experimental Approach to Free Will - Katherin A Rogers

The Experimental Approach to Free Will

Freedom in the Laboratory
Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-19403-5 (ISBN)
CHF 69,80 inkl. MwSt
Rogers canvases the literature critical of recent experiments, adding new criticisms of her own. She argues these experiments should not undermine belief in human freedom and lists ethical and practical problems facing the attempt to study free will experimentally.
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.

Katherin A. Rogers is Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Delaware. Her publications include Perfect Being Theology (2000), Anselm on Freedom (2008), Freedom and Self-Creation: Anselmian Libertarianism (2015), and numerous articles in the philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy, and ethics, including such topics as freedom and foreknowledge, time and eternity, the moral status of abortion, and the justification of punishment.

Introduction 1. Reasons For and Against Free Will 2. A Paradigmatic Free Choice 3. The Libet Experiments 4. Conscious Will is an Illusion 5. Situationism 6. Ethical Issues in Experiments with Human Subjects 7. The Future Study of Human Freedom: Setting the Stage and Ethical Issues 8. The Future Study of Human Freedom: Practical Problems

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 471 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Neurologie
ISBN-10 1-032-19403-0 / 1032194030
ISBN-13 978-1-032-19403-5 / 9781032194035
Zustand Neuware
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