Neurofilosofía y libre albedrío

  1. José Manuel Muñoz Ortega 1
  1. 1 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), España
Revista:
Daimon: revista internacional de filosofía

ISSN: 1130-0507

Año de publicación: 2013

Título del ejemplar: Racionalidad y Neurociencias

Número: 59

Páginas: 57-70

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

I analyze the impact of neuroscience on the study of the relation between determinism and free will. Several papers show the link between activity on certain nervous areas and performance of volitional functions, Benjamin Libet and Daniel Wegner’s work gives great importance to the unconscious in our acts, and there is evidence of causal influence of sociocultural environment on the individual will and neural pathways. All that seems to point to a deterministic conception of our will, but I hold that neither this one nor the indeterministic one are absolutely clear at present and that future research must go deep into neuroplasticity, distal decisions and deliberation.

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