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The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning)

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
In this public lecture, Dr William Casebeer discusses neuroscience, human agency and free will.
The findings of neuroscience are often used to undermine traditional assumptions about the nature of human agency. In this talk, I sketch out a compatibilist position which leverages a neo-Aristotelian concept of “critical control distinctions”—rather than talking about whether agents freely will actions, a more consilient vocabulary asks whether agents were in control or out of control when the action was taken. A plausible neurobiological determinism can save what is worth saving about our traditional notions of responsibility and also points toward a twenty-first century research agenda which coevolves legal and moral norms about responsibility with neuroscientific critical control capacities.

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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William Casebeer
Keywords
neuroscience
human agency
free will
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 23/02/2017
Duration: 00:55:53

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