Realism about free will is warranted, because the picture of humans as choice-making agents is explanatorily indispensable in the human and social sciences.
The Fall 2019 revision/update of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s “Philosophy of Neuroscience” entry includes revisions to previously published sections, and an entirely new section on work in the field during the second decade of the 21st century. Detailed discussion of recent work on mechanism reflects the dominance that this …
This series of posts discusses some key ideas from Why Free Will is Real (Harvard University Press, 2019) by Christian List.
We are pleased to have Christian List blogging this week on Why Free Will Is Real (Harvard University Press, 2019). To see all of Christian’s posts on a single page, please click here.
The following is a guest post by Brains blog reader Eric Lindell, whose paper “A Note on Active Panpsychism” was published recently in The Journal of Mind and Behavior. Abstract: Maturana’s Biology of Cognition offers a theory of consciousness without claiming it as such. Instead, it claims only to have …
In ‘Experimental ordinary language philosophy: a cross-linguistic investigation of default inferences’, (Synthese, 2019) Eugen Fischer, Paul Engelhard, Joachim Horvath and Hiroshi Ohtani seek to take experimental philosophy beyond the study of intuitions and highlight links to one of its historical precursors. They show how experimental methods and findings from psycholinguistics …
Beate Krickel and Matej Kohár will discuss the Completeness of Mechanistic Explanation on the next Neural Mechanisms webinar on Friday, July 12. Find out how to join the discussion (for free) in this post.
