Neuroscience and Human Freedom | Prof. James Madden
The Thomistic Institute
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The Libet-Style Experiments and the Neuro-Skeptical Philosophers
Liebitt's experiment shows conscious act of willing is not antecedent to the readiness potential it actually comes after. The threat to freedom and moral agency does not come from the plausibility of determinism or compatibilism, he writes. Libet-style experiments do the proponent of bona fide capacities for ethically significant actions on the part of human beings as service by disabusing us finally of a wrong-headed way of framing our understanding of what we are doing when we act.
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