Dialogue on Free Will and Science

Name: Dialogue on Free Will and Science
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ISBN: 9780199329298

ISBN-10: 019932929X

ISBN-13: 9780199329298

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alfred R. Mele

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In A Dialogue on Free Will and Science, renowned philosopher Alfred Mele explores the experiments in neuroscience and psychology that have been said to pose the greatest challenges to free will. He uses an imagined dialogue among several characters to make what is typically a complex topic more accessible and engaging for students. Guided by the question "How much power do these scientific challenges have?", the characters first consider what having free will means and then react to well-known experiments that question its existence, including work by Libet and Milgram and the bystander, dime, and Stanford prison experiments. Their discussions show how useful philosophical methods can be in…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 8.11" wide x 5.51" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.396



Preface



Monday Afternoon


What does "free will" mean?


Three answers: regular, mid-grade, and premium



Monday Night


Regular free will


Determinism


Frankfurt-style stories


The zygote argument


Moral responsibility



Tuesday Afternoon


Mid-gradefree will


Deep openness


Moral responsibility again


Luck


Premium free will


A survey



Tuesday Night


Libet's neuroscience experiments



Wednesday Afternoon


An fMRI experiment


Buridan's ass


A depth electrode experiment


Consciousness at work


Ramachandran's thought experiment



Wednesday Night


Gazzaniga on free will


Nylon stocking experiment


Dime experiment


Bystander experiment


Good Samaritan experiment



Thursday Afternoon


Milgram's experiments and free will


Bystander experiment and free will


Dime experiment and free will


Stanford prison experiment and free will



Thursday Night


Wegner on free will


Implementation intentions and consciousness in action



Friday Afternoon


Scientific evidence and regular free will


Scientific evidence and mid-grade free will



Friday Night


Scientific evidence and premium free will


Souls


Agent causation


Regular and mid-grade free will again


Sources


Glossary


Index