Reevaluating Conventional Views on Moral Responsibility

Traditional philosophical debates on freedom of the will hinge on the assumption that morally significant actions must be caused by an agent's will, challenging the volitionist thesis. Cormac's actions to be praiseworthy or blameworthy depend on his conscious intention preceding those actions. However, neuroscientific findings, like the readiness potential and Leibit's experiments, suggest that conscious deliberation may not be the causal antecedent of our actions, raising questions about the validity of the volitionist perspective.