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Free will and responsibility
Author(s) -
Nahmias Eddy
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.526
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1939-5086
pISSN - 1939-5078
DOI - 10.1002/wcs.1181
Subject(s) - free will , moral responsibility , determinism , compatibilism , set (abstract data type) , engineering ethics , psychology , epistemology , political science , sociology , computer science , law , philosophy , engineering , programming language
Free will is a set of capacities for conscious choice and control of actions and is essential for moral responsibility. While determinism is traditionally discussed as the main potential challenge to free will and responsibility, other potential challenges exist and need to be considered by philosophers and scientists. The cognitive sciences are relevant to free will both to study how people understand free will and potential challenges to it, and to study whether these challenges are supported by relevant scientific evidence. WIREs Cogn Sci 2012, 3:439–449. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1181 This article is categorized under: Philosophy > Action