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Neuroscientific evidence has educated us in the ways in which the brain mediates our thought and behavior and, therefore, forced us to critically examine how we conceive of free will. This volume, featuring contributions from an international and interdisciplinary group of distinguished researchers and scholars, explores how our increasing knowledge of the brain can elucidate the concept of the will and whether or to what extent it is free. It also examines how brain science can inform our normative judgments of moral and criminal responsibility for our actions. Some chapters point out the different respects in which mental disorders can compromise the will and others show how different forms of neuromodulation can reveal the neural underpinning of the mental capacities associated with the will and can restore or enhance them when they are impaired.
Shows how cognitive and clinical neuroscience can elucidate the concept of free will, informing readers of the brain-mind relation and how it mediates human thought and behavior
Offers a distinctive interdisciplinary approach to free will, including neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology and law
Contributions from both distinguished neuroscientists and philosophers provides a unique perspective from which to examine questions about how brain function enables and how brain dysfunction disables the will
Part I. Introduction:
1. Free will in light of neuroscience Walter Glannon13. Neuroscience, free will and criminal responsibility Stephen J. Morse.
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Neuroscientific evidence has educated us in the ways in which the brain mediates our thought and behavior and, therefore, forced us to critically examine how we conceive of free will. This volume, featuring contributions from an international and interdisciplinary group of distinguished researchers and scholars, explores how our increasing knowledge of the brain can elucidate the concept of the will and whether or to what extent it is free. It also examines how brain science can inform our normative judgments of moral and criminal responsibility for our actions. Some chapters point out the different respects in which mental disorders can compromise the will and others show how different forms of neuromodulation can reveal the neural underpinning of the mental capacities associated with the will and can restore or enhance them when they are impaired.
Shows how cognitive and clinical neuroscience can elucidate the concept of free will, informing readers of the brain-mind relation and how it mediates human thought and behavior
Offers a distinctive interdisciplinary approach to free will, including neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology and law
Contributions from both distinguished neuroscientists and philosophers provides a unique perspective from which to examine questions about how brain function enables and how brain dysfunction disables the will
