compatibilist view that while the world is deterministic, there is still free will, and thus holding people morally responsible for their actions is just. This version of compatibilism has produced numerous papers by philosophers and legal scholars concerning the relevance of neuroscience to free will. After reading lots of them, I’ve concluded that they usually boil down to three sentences: Wow, there’ve been all these cool advances in neuroscience, all reinforcing the conclusion that ours is a deterministic world. Some of those neuroscience findings challenge our notions of agency, moral
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