Doubting Free Will: Three Experiments

Doubting Free Will: Three Experiments

This moral presumption against infliction of suffering has particular relevance in the field of criminal law because, as a system of retribution, the criminal justice system is institutionally committed to the infliction of human suffering. Simply put, suffering is inflicted to make people “pay” for the crimes that they commit. Of course, the criminal justice system often has other goals as wel...

Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Mechanism: Experiments on Folk Intuitions

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Free Will Ideology: Experiments, Evolution and Virtue Ethics

The Scope of Man's Free Will

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Much of the best biological work in decision-making has been carried out in bacteria and insects because the genetics of these organisms is better understood and they provide the most physically accessible nervous systems. With the advent of modern imaging and neurophysiological techniques, however, decision-making by human and non-human primates has become a bustling area in the early stages o...