A Neurophilosophy of Libertarian Free Will

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Prof Peter Ulric Tse (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College)

A Neurophilosophy of Libertarian Free Will

Prof Peter Ulric Tse (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College)

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Oxford University Press
01 May 2024

Philosophy of mind; States of consciousness

This 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.

By: Prof Peter Ulric Tse (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Dartmouth College)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 682g
ISBN: 9780198876953
ISBN 10: 0198876955
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter 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.

Reviews for A Neurophilosophy of Libertarian Free Will

Well organized and clearly written, this is an engaging discussion that makes a compelling, nuanced case that commonsense, libertarian free will is compatible with our leading philosophical theories about the universe and the human mind. * W. Simkulet, CHOICE *