The real challenge to free will and responsibility
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The real challenge to free will and responsibility.
Adina Roskies [1] argues that recent developments in the neurosciences do not challenge our ideas of free will and personal responsibility. She limits her discussion, however, to 'libertarian free will', and her argument focuses on the idea that we are able to act differently from how we choose to act. She does not address the influential new compatibilist views of free will and responsibility ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1364-6613
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2007.10.005