Research Catalog

Title

Is science compatible with free will? : exploring free will and consciousness in the light of quantum physics and neuroscience / Antoine Suarez, Peter Adams, editors.

Publication

New York : Springer, ©2013.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Suarez, Antoine.
• Adams, Peter.

Description

xiv, 312 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"One of the first books to discuss, at the same time, the implications of quantum physics, Libet's experiments and the neurophysiological finding of mirror neurons Uses scientific data as a basis for drawing philosophical implications. Contains interdisciplinary contributions from neuroscientists, quantum physicists, and free-will philosophers. There is a perceived conflict within the scientific community between the conviction that a human being has free will on one hand, and deterministic physics and neuroscience on the other. When faced with this conflict, two alternative positions are possible: either human freedom is an illusion, or deterministic science is not the last word on the brain and will eventually be superseded by a neuroscience that admits processes not completely determined by the past."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Free will and determinism
• Consciousness
• Quantum theory
• Neurosciences
• Science > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Peter Adams and Antoine Suarez -- True quantum randomness / Antonio Acín -- Are there quantum effects coming from outside space-time? Nonlocality, free will and "no many-worlds" / Nicolas Gisin -- Can free will emerge from determinism in quantum theory? / Gilles Brassard and Paul Raymond-Robichaud -- Free will and nonlocality at detection as basic principles of quantum physics / Antoine Suarez -- Are humans the only free agents in the universe? / Zeeya Merali -- The origin of freedom in animal behaviour / Martin Heisenberg -- The role of inhibitory control of reflex mechanisms in voluntary behavior / Flavio Keller and Jana M. Iverson -- The mirror mechanism as neurophysiological basis for action and intention understanding / Leonardo Fogassi and Giacomo Rizzolatti -- On the quest for consciousness in vegetative state patients through electrical neuroimaging / S.L. Gonzalez, S Perrig, and R. Grave de Peralta -- On the irreducibility of consciousness and its relevance to free will / Giulio Tononi -- On habit learning in neuroscience and free will / Javier Bernácer and José Manuel Giménez-Amaya -- Free will and neuroscience: revisiting Libet's studies / Alfred R. Mele -- Towards non-physical realism / Jean Stuane -- Are economics laws compatible with free will? / Luís Cabral -- The two-stage model to the problem of free will: how behavioral freedom in lower animals has evolved to become free will in humans and higher animals / Robert O. Doyle -- Can a traditional libertarian or incompatibilist free will be reconciled with modern science? Steps toward a positive answer / Robert Kane -- Exploring free will and consciousness in the light of quantum physics and neuroscience / Peter Adams and Antoine Suarez.

Call Number

JFE 15-3085

ISBN

• 9781461452119
• 1461452112
• 9781461452126 (eBook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012952284

OCLC

802321639

Title

Is science compatible with free will? : exploring free will and consciousness in the light of quantum physics and neuroscience / Antoine Suarez, Peter Adams, editors.

Imprint

New York : Springer, ©2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Suarez, Antoine.

Adams, Peter.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-3085