Free will and the brain : neuroscientific, philosophical, and legal perspectives / edited by Walter Glannon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glannon, Walter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Brain--Research.

Brain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Free Will & the Brain

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Neuroscientific evidence has educated us in the ways in which the brain mediates our thought and behavior and, therefore, forced us to critically examine how we conceive of free will. This volume, featuring contributions from an international and interdisciplinary group of distinguished researchers and scholars, explores how our increasing knowledge of the brain can elucidate the concept of the will and whether or to what extent it is free. It also examines how brain science can inform our normative judgments of moral and criminal responsibility for our actions. Some chapters point out the different respects in which mental disorders can compromise the will and others show how different forms of neuromodulation can reveal the neural underpinning of the mental capacities associated with the will and can restore or enhance them when they are impaired.

Contents:

Pat I: Introduction

1. Free will in light of neuroscience / Walter Glannon

Part II: Conceptual issues

2. Is free will and observer-based concept rather than a brain-based one? A critical neuroepistemological account / Georg Northoff

3. Evolution, dissolution and the neuroscience of the will / Grant Gillett

4. The experience of free will and the experience of agency: an error-prone, reconstructive process / Matthis Synofzik, Gottfried Vosgerau, and Axel Lindner

Part III: Mental capacities and disorders of the will

5. Being free by losing control: what obsessive-compulsive disorder can tell us about free will / Sanneke De Haan, Erik Rietveld and Damiaan Denys

6. Psychopathy and free will from a philosophical and cognitive neuroscience perspective / Farah Focquaert, Andrea L. Glenn, and Adrian Raine

7. How mental disorders can compromise the will / Gerben Meyen

8. Are addicted individuals responsible for their behaviour? / Wayne Hall and Adrian Carter

9. Assessment and modification of free will via scientific techniques: two challenges / Nicole A. Vincent

Part IV: Neural circuitry and modification of the will

10. Implications of functional neurosurgery and deep-brain stimulation for free will and decision-making / Nir Lipsman and Andreas M. Lozano

11. Reducing, restoring, or enhancing autonomy with neuromodulation techniques / Maartje Schermer

Part V: Legal implications of neuroscience

12. Neurobiology collides with moral and criminal responsibility: the result is double vision / Steven E. Hyman

13. Neuroscience, free will, and criminal responsibility / Stephen J. Morse

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

1-316-28798-X

1-316-32212-2

1-316-30874-X

1-316-32880-5

1-316-32546-6

1-316-33214-4

1-316-31876-1

1-139-56582-6