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  1. “Could Have Chosen Otherwise Under Identical Conditions”: An Evolutionary Perspective on Free Will.John Banja - 2015 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 6 (2):3-11.
    Using an evolutionary perspective, this article examines the cogency of the libertarian formulation of free will—that is, that individuals have free will if they “could have acted or chosen otherwise under identical conditions.” The article argues that by representing the agent as a disembodied self acting and choosing in logical rather than in contextualized, lived-in space, the libertarian formulation misconstrues human willing in ways that invite a host of philosophical problems that persist to the present day. This article indicts the (...)
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  • Human Consciousness: Where Is It From and What Is It for.Boris Kotchoubey - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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  • Two causal mistakes in Wegner's illusion of conscious will.Holly Andersen - 2006
    Daniel Wegner argues that our feelings of conscious will are illusory: these feelings are not causally involved in the production of action, which is rather governed by unconscious neural processes. I argue that Wegner's interpretation of neuroscientific results rests on two fallacious causal assumptions, neither of which are supported by the evidence. Each assumption involves a Cartesian disembodiment of conscious will, and it is this disembodiment that results in the appearance of causal inefficacy, rather than any interesting features of conscious (...)
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