决策神经科学如何影响我们对道德责任和自由意志的理解？

How does the neuroscience of decision making bear on our understanding of moral responsibility and free will?

机构信息

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, United States.

出版信息

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2012 Dec;22(6):1022-6. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2012.05.009. Epub 2012 Jun 18.

DOI:10.1016/j.conb.2012.05.009

Abstract

This review considers recent work in neuroscience that has been thought to challenge views of free will. I argue that these experiments do little to directly undermine the belief that we have free will. However, evidence for mechanism and automatic behaviors may cause us to rethink some commonsensical notions of what is required for acting freely.

摘要

这篇综述考虑了最近在神经科学领域的一些工作，这些工作被认为对自由意志的观点提出了挑战。我认为，这些实验并没有直接削弱我们对自由意志的信念。然而，对于机制和自动行为的证据可能会促使我们重新思考一些关于自由行动所需的常识性概念。