What's with free will? ethics and religion after neuroscience / edited by Philip Clayton and James W. Walters ; foreword by John Martin Fischer.

Other author Clayton, Philip, 1956-
Other author Walters, James W. (James William), 1945-
Other author Fischer, John Martin, 1952-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoEugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2020]
Descriptionxiv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Contents Introduction: Why the perennial conundrum of free will matters even more today / James W. Walters -- A psychiatric perspective on free will: a tenuous relationship / Mark Ard -- Neurodeterminist or neurocontrarian: the possibilities and limits of neuroscience / Calvin Thomsen -- Belief in free will is beneficial / Kendal C. Boyd -- Genuine (but limited) freedom for creatures and for a god of love / Thomas Jay Oord -- Freedom for neighbor love / Gerald R. Winslow -- Free will, physics, and personal observation / David Wilbur -- "Parascience" and free will: Wendell Berry and Marilynne Robinson on scientific reductionism / Charles Scriven -- Women's agency in the context of neoliberalism / Marlene Ferreras -- Are we really free?: a response to a response to neurophysiological reductionism / Richard Rice -- "That of freedom": everywhere and all the way down / David R. Larson -- Maximizing, but limiting reduction: Nancey Murphy's non-reductive physicalism and the possibility of downward causation / Zane Yi -- Science, ethics, and free will: why neuroscience doesn't ground freedom, and what we might resolve to do about it / Philip Clayton -- Who wants to be totally free? / James W. Walters -- Conclusion: Reflections on the discussion / Philip Clayton.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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LCCN 2019304325
ISBN9781532681622 paperback
ISBN1532681623 paperback

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