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Neuroscientific threats to free will
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In this chapter I review recent work on neuroscientific threats to free will. What is it for something to threaten free will? Consider, first, an apparent threat. You are walking in the dark, and a shadow looms in the distance. It certainly appears threatening, but you are not sure. What do you do? You consider the source of the threat (the thing casting the shadow, and you attempt to discover whether the threat is actual (an attacker) or merely apparent (a tree). And if the threat is actual,...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Routledge Companion to Free Will
- Volume:
- 37
- Pages:
- 2-12
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-01
- DOI:
- ISBN:
- 9781138795815
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- pubs:684157
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- Deposit date:
- 2017-03-07
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- This chapter is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
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