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Call for papers:

"This topical collection aims to take a fresh look at libertarianism and, more broadly, to explore the prospects for robust notions of agency and free will under indeterminism that do not run counter to science but may even be scientifically grounded. Could there be something like scientific libertarianism? What would it entail?"

link.springer.com/collections/

SpringerLinkAgency and Free Will in an Indeterministic World: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Biology and NeuroscienceThe philosophical debate about free will has long been concerned with whether free will is compatible with the deterministic laws of classical physics. The ...

Alfred Mele and Anne Sophie Meincke on #biology and #freewill:

"Strikingly, philosophers have long ignored biology when it comes to answering these questions. Instead, they have quibbled about whether and how free will might fit into a supposedly deterministic universe as studied by (classical) physics. Only recently has the debate about free will begun to open up to biological considerations"

Vienna, June 10. Live stream available and lectures will be published later:

oeaw.ac.at/junge-akademie/jour

www.oeaw.ac.atCan Biology Help us Defend Free Will? An Emerging Debate in PhilosophyAlfred Mele and Anne Sophie Meincke discuss what philosophers can learn from biology about free will.

Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series:

"Can Biology Help Us Defend Free Will? An Emerging Debate in Philosophy"

philevents.org/event/show/1356

philevents.orgCan Biology Help Us Defend Free Will? An Emerging Debate in PhilosophyHumans – members of the biological species homo sapiens – are products of evolution. Therefore, if we have free will, it is plausible to assume that our free will is also a product of evolution. But do we actually have free will? Is it – at least sometimes – up to us what we decide to do? Strikingly, philosophers have long ignored biology when it comes to answering these questions. Instead, they have quibbled about whether and how free will might fit into a supposedly deterministic universe as studied by (classical) physics. Only recently has the debate about free will begun to open up to biological considerations – so far, however, mostly with sceptical results. We are told that it is not we but our brains that decide what we want and how we act, or that our genes determine our decisions, or other biological factors beyond our control.   In this Young Academy Distinguished Lecture, Alfred R. Mele, Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, and Anne Sophie Meincke, member of the Young Academy and philosopher at the University of Vienna, will take an overdue fresh look at the relationship between free will and biology: Can biology help us understand and perhaps even defend free will? If so, how? If not, why not? To make progress here, it is necessary to critically analyse the arguments put forward against free will in the name of biology. Do these sceptical arguments really show what they claim to show? If not, then there is room to explore what constructive role biology could play in an attempt to defend free will against scepticism. Perhaps the common conception of a biological organism as some kind of deterministic machine is not accurate after all? How should we understand organisms instead? What biological function could free will serve? Taking evolution seriously also suggests considering the possibility that free will may not be a privilege of human organisms.