RETHINKING ABOUT FREE WILL AFTER THE COMING OF NEUROSCIENCE: IS IT WELL-GROUNDED FEAR?

Before the coming of brain science, the problem of free will was investigated by conceptual analysis and theoretical assumptions. But these speculations weren’t borne out of the facts. The possibility of experimental evidence about those questions did not exist yet. Since our knowledge about human nature is also the result of studies in the neuroscience field, the way of facing many conceptual questions considerably changed. Now the philosophers too have to face the naturalistic-reductionist perspective of the world. From this viewpoint all concepts need to be included into the natural science ontology. So if you can’t include a notion in this field, it means that it is an irreducible concept and, for this reason, you have to eliminate it. According with this perspective, the discussion about the problem of free will includes also an account of neuroscientific investigations that are made to discover what happens in our brain when we are making a decision.

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