Conscious Will and Responsibility

by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them. This commonsense view is thrown into dispute by Benjamin Libet's eyebrow-raising experiments, which seem to suggest that conscious will occurs not before but after the start of brain activity that produces physical action.

Libet's striking results are often claimed to undermine traditional views of free will and moral responsibility and to have practical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195381645
• ISBN13: 9780195381641
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 10.0"