<p>Seminar, four hours. Survey of motivations, methods, and conclusions of neuroscientific and psychological investigations of free will. Consideration of neuroscientific arguments that humans are not free when they choose and of philosophical arguments about what is required for freedom and what is required for responsibility. Discussion of extent to which philosophical investigations of free will inform neuroscience and whether and how experiments could be designed and carried out to better correspond with philosophical and legal debate on free will. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

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Free Will and Moral Responsibility: From Neuroscience to Philosophy and Back

HNRS 142

5 units