A Neurophilosophy of Libertarian Free Will

Auteur

Peter Ulric Tse received a BA in Physics and Math from Dartmouth College in 1984, and a PhD in Perceptual Psychology in 1998. After completing a post-doc in Brain Imaging at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, he returned to Dartmouth as a professor, where he has been a teacher and researcher since 2001.

Texte du rabat

This book offers an intellectually fierce defence of Libertarian Free Will seen from a neuroscientific and biological perspective. Tse argues that causation in living systems is dominated by non-linear goal-seeking automatic feedback loops and a continual criterial reparameterization of what will count as an adequate solution to goal fulfilment.

Contenu

• 1: Introduction

• 2: The Basic Questions

• 3: The Philosophy of Free Will

• 4: Scientific Arguments against Free Will

• 5: The Neuroscience of Free Will