Freedom & Free Will
The free will "debate" remains a major unresolved issue in psychology and neuroscience and in the philosophy of mind. Currently, the Foundation is developing several philanthropic initiatives to catalyze new discoveries and insights on the nature of freedom and free will, ranging from research within the fields of physics and chemistry to philosophy and philosophical theology.
FEATURED GRANT
Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility
Professor Warren S. Brown, Director
Lee Edward Travis Research Institute
Professor Nancey Murphy
School of Theology
This grant supported research on the philosophical and neurobiological perspectives on moral responsibility. The co-PIs have written Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?, a manuscript that draws on philosophical arguments and neurobiological research in order to undermine neurobiological reductionism and to defend robust concepts of mental causation and human freedom. The manuscript will be published by Oxford University Press in 2007.