Nancey Murphy

Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will (Paperback)

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Produktbeschreibung

If humans are purely physical, then must all our thoughts and actions be determined by the laws of neurobiology? Free will, moral responsibility, and reason itself appear to be in jeopardy. But Murphy and Brown present a non-reductive version of physicalism which leaves room for us to be (sometimes) the authors of our own thoughts and actions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP UK
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780199568239
• ISBN-10: 0199568235
• Artikelnr.: 27346695

Autorenporträt

Nancey Murphy is Professor of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Seminary, California. Her recent books include Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will (OUP, 2009) and Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (CUP, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: New Approaches to Knotty Old Problems
1: Avoiding Cartesian Materialism
2: From Causal Reductionism to Self-Directed Systems
3: From Mindless to Intelligent Action
4: How Can Neural Nets Mean?
5: How Does Reason Get Its Grip on the Brain?
6: Who's Responsible?
7: Neurobiological Reductionism and Free Will
Postscript