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OverviewThis book offers an intellectually fierce defence of Libertarian Free Will seen from a neuroscientific and biological perspective. Tse argues that causation in living systems is dominated by non-linear goal-seeking automatic feedback loops and a continual criterial reparameterization of what will count as an adequate solution to goal fulfilment. For this reason, outcomes are neither determined nor random. That is, for each cycle, outcomes could have turned out differently than they actually did. Humans, he argues, have two kinds of libertarian free will. One type concerns the ability to choose freely and is shared with other highly developed animals. Second-order free will, in contrast, is uniquely human, and concerns envisioning a new self, then working toward the realization of that vision over a long period of time. As such, free will is understood to be centrally realized in acts of imagining and deliberation, whether free actions follow or not.A Neurophilosophy of Libertarian Free Will discusses these key philosophical issues considering the latest data and theories of neuroscience and will be of interest to academics, students, and anyone interested in the issue of Free Will. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Prof Peter Tse (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198876953ISBN 10: 0198876955 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 28 June 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: To order Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The Basic Questions 3: The Philosophy of Free Will 4: Scientific Arguments against Free Will 5: The Neuroscience of Free WillReviewsAuthor InformationPeter Ulric Tse received a BA in Physics and Math from Dartmouth College in 1984, and a PhD in Perceptual Psychology in 1998. After completing a post-doc in Brain Imaging at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, he returned to Dartmouth as a professor, where he has been a teacher and researcher since 2001. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |