Neurophilosophy of Free Will
Subtitle: From Libertarian Illusions to a Concept of Natural Autonomy
Contributors: Cynthia Klohr (Translator)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: April 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780262232142
Subjects: Neurosciences; Philosophy of mind; Metaethics; Philosophy; Free Will & Determinism; Neurology - General; Neuroscience; Medical / Neuroscience; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Neuropsychology; Cognitive neuroscience; Free will and determinism
First sentence: After turning briefly to Kant, I introduce a concept of free will that addresses three essential constituents of philosophical and commonplace discourse on the subject: These are alternativism, intelligibility, and origination (section 1).
Description: "Neuroscientists routinely investigate such classical philosophical topics as consciousness, thought, language, meaning, aesthetics, and death. According to Henrik Walter, philosophers should in turn embrace the wealth of research findings and ideas provided by neuroscience. In this book Walter applies the methodology of neurophilosophy to one of philosophy's central challenges, the notion of free will.

Neurophilosophical conclusions are based on, and consistent with, scientific knowledge about the brain and its functioning."--BOOK JACKET.