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  title info:
    title: Neurophilosophy of free will
    sub title: from libertarian illusions to a concept of natural autonomy
  title info:
    title: Neurophilosophie der Willensfreiheit. English
  name:
    name part: Walter, Henrik.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©2001
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 391 pages)
  abstract: 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.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.Walter's answer to whether there is free will is, It depends. The basic questions concerning free will are (1) whether we are able to choose other than we actually do, (2) whether our choices are made intelligibly, and (3) whether we are really the originators of our choices. According to Walter, freedom of will is an illusion if we mean by it that under identical conditions we would be able to do or decide otherwise, while simultaneously acting only for reasons and being the true originators of our actions. In place of this scientifically untenable strong version of free will, Walter offers what he calls natural autonomy--self-determination unaided by supernatural powers that could exist even in an entirely determined universe. Although natural autonomy can support neither our traditional concept of guilt nor certain cherished illusions about ourselves, it does not imply the abandonment of all concepts of responsibility. For we are not mere marionettes, with no influence over our thoughts or actions.
  note: Henrik Walter ; translated by Cynthia Klohr.
  note: "A Bradford book."
  subject:
    topic: Free will and determinism
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: NEUROSCIENCE/General
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY/General
  classification: BJ1463 .W3413 2001
  classification: 123/.5
  identifier: 9780262285759
  identifier: 0262285754
  identifier: 0262232146
  identifier: 9780262232142
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 050623
    record change date: 20221121162341.7
    record identifier: in00004600885
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng