Type:
Lecture
Audience:
Open to the Public
Speaker:
Building:
Zrinyi u. 14
Room:
412
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 5:30pm
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Date:
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Abstract:
A major source of scientific skepticism about free will is the belief (defended by neuroscientist Benjamin Libet, social psychologist Daniel Wegner, and others) that conscious decisions and intentions never play a role in producing corresponding actions. I discuss two serious problems encountered by any attempt to justify this belief by appealing to existing neuroscientific data.