The concept of free will is hard to define, but crucial to both individual and social life. For
centuries people have wondered how freedom is possible in a world ruled by physical …

Este trabajo se plantea como una breve revisión crítica sobre algunos de los temas actuales
que se están estudiando en la intersección entre neurociencia, educación y ética. El primer …

A long-standing position in philosophy, law, and theology is that a person can be held
morally responsible for an action only if they had the freedom to choose and to act …

There is an ongoing debate in philosophy and psychology about when one should consider
an action to be free. Several aspects are frequently suggested as relevant:(a) a prior …

Research initiated by Benjamin Libet suggests that short-term conscious intentions are not
the onsets of bodily actions. However, other research, particularly on longer-term intentions …

To investigate the neural preparation and awareness of an intention to act, neuroscientists
typically examine spontaneous movements: self-paced flexions of the hand or foot …

Having an intention to act is commonly operationalized as the moment at which awareness
of an urge or decision to act arises. Measuring this moment has been challenging due to the …

Under normal circumstances, we experience a freedom to engage in or refrain from specific
actions: we feel free to do or do not as we like. This chapter suggests to see free will as a …

Since it became a discipline in 2002 (Safire, 2002), neuroethics has been characterised in
two ways:“ethics of neuroscience” or “neuroscience of ethics”(Roskies, 2002: 21-22; Cortina …

La neurociencia ha ido adquiriendo una gran importancia en el estudio del ser humano a lo
largo de las últimas dos décadas. Esta importancia se ha debido no sólo a los experimentos …