Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will (Paperback)

by Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown

Book Overview

If humans are purely physical, and if it is the brain that does the work formerly assigned to the mind or soul, then how can it fail to be the case that all of our thoughts and actions are determined by the laws of neurobiology? If this is the case, then free will, moral responsibility, and, indeed, reason itself would appear to be in jeopardy. Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown here defend a non-reductive version of physicalism whereby humans are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199568235
• ISBN13: 9780199568239
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"