The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk

(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)

by

Alfred Mele (Florida State University)

on

“Free Will and Neuroscience”

Tuesday, 22 January, 2013, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412

ABSTRACT

A major source of scientific skepticism about free will is the belief (defended by neuroscientist Benjamin Libet, social psychologist Daniel Wegner, and others) that conscious decisions and intentions never play a role in producing corresponding actions.  I discuss two serious problems encountered by any attempt to justify this belief by appealing to existing neuroscientific data.