“What does neuroscience tell us about freedom of the will?”
Philosophers have long struggled with the problem of free will; more recently neuroscientists have claimed to be able to speak to this longstanding problem. I review some of the recent work in neuroscience that purports to bear on the problem of free will, and argue that although neuroscience can contribute to our understanding, it cannot resolve the problem of free will without recourse to philosophy.
Date:
24 October 2016, 16:00
Venue:
Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
Seminar Room
Speaker:
Professor Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College)
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser contact email address:
sarah.bebb@humanities.ox.ac.uk
Host:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Sarah Taylor
