The Experimental Approach to Free Will: Freedom in the Laboratory

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Biology, life sciences books

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The Experimental Approach to Free Will: Freedom in the Laboratory : Routledge : 9781032194028 : 1032194022 : 30 Mar 2022 : 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 the

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