Is moral responsibility an illusion? | Galen Strawson, Massimo Pigliucci, Sarah Garfinkel
Philosophy For Our Times
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Are You Determined to Say That?
I study the brain and I look at consequential behaviour. And of course we have control of our actions. What is happening in the brain? Absolutely. Philosophers are on a sort of meta level of language which sort of is very abstract. But it's not that complicated. Yes we have moral responsibility, yes we have free will. We exercise control using our prefrontal cortex. Some of us may have stronger urges to gene environmental interactions. Unless you're completely impaired and in levels of psychosis or other things,. I just don't see the debate here in this whole...We've lasted once, we have the whole of philosophy. The you want to show. It's hard stuff but it's not
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