Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "free will"

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    • For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything 

      Greene, Joshua; Cohen, Jonathan D. (The Royal Society, 2004)
      The rapidly growing field of cognitive neuroscience holds the promise of explaining the operations of the mind in terms of the physical operations of the brain. Some suggest that our emerging understanding of the physical ...

    • Mistaking Randomness for Free Will 

      Ebert, Jeffrey Paul; Wegner, Daniel M. (Elsevier, 2011)
      Belief in free will is widespread. The present research considered one reason why people may believe that actions are freely chosen rather than determined: they attribute randomness in behavior to free will. Experiment 1 ...