Scientific Challenges to Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4787348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Shepherd (0000-0003-2008-649X, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 197-207 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12200 |
| PMID | 26146511 |
| PMCID | PMC4479978 |
| OpenAlex | W1505289592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
Here, I review work from three lines of research in cognitive science often taken to threaten free will and moral responsibility. This work concerns conscious deciding, the experience of acting, and the role of largely unnoticed situational influences on behavior. Whether this work in fact threatens free will and moral responsibility depends on how we ought to interpret it, and depends as well on the nature of free and responsible behavior. I discuss different ways this work has been interpreted and argue that though work on conscious deciding and the experience of acting presents no real threat, work on situational influences is more difficult to dismiss. This work may present a real threat, and it may require us to revise our commonsense understanding of free and responsible behavior. But this work may also present ways to augment free and responsible behavior. Determining whether and how advancing science threatens, enhances, or simply describes free will is an ongoing task for scientists and philosophers alike
Compatibilism · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Free will · Management · Metaphysics · Moral responsibility · Philosophy of mind · Situation awareness · Situational ethics · Sociology · Task (project management · Work (physics · Free Will and Agency · Historical and Scientific Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
Conscious Will and Responsibility
Lack of Character
Character as Moral Fiction
Effective Intentions
Good Lamps Are the Best Police
Time of Conscious Intention to Act in Relation to Onset of Cerebral Activity (Readiness-Potential)
Does consciousness cause behavior?
The Illusion of Conscious Will
The free will inventory
I move, therefore I am
First-person approaches in neuroscience of consciousness
Sense of agency in health and disease
Free will and consciousness
The Neural Basis of Free Will
Going mental
Willusionism, epiphenomenalism, and the feeling of conscious will
Vicarious Agency
Apparent mental causation
Environmental noise level as a determinant of helping behavior
Bystander intervention in emergencies
Behavioral Study of obedience
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |