The Folk Psychology of Free Will: Fits and Starts

By Shaun Nichols. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Intuitions, Counter-Examples, and Experimental Philosophy (2010, background): “Similarly, Shaun Nichols’s papers in experimental metaphysics (Nichols 2004 and Nichols 2006) are supposed to concern the concept of free action. equivalence, the evidence, whatever it may be, for thinking that Smith does not know the proposition is going to be evidence for the claim about the…”
Folk Intuitions on Free Will (2006, background): “The suggestion in Nichols (2004b) was that, despite the dubiousness of the Kantian argument as a proof of indeterminist choice, it might provide an account of how we come to believe in indeterminist choice.”
At the Heart of Morality Lies Folk Psychology (2009, background): “Although experimental philosophers have recently turned their attention to folk conceptions of free will, they have focused primarily on whether people adhere to a compatibilist or incompatibilist view of the universe (Nahmias, Morris, Nadelhoffer and Turner, 2005; Nichols, 2004, 2006).”
Surveying Freedom: Folk Intuitions about free will and moral responsibility (2005, result): “When combined with the results from studies 1 and 2, this suggests to us that people do not have the intuition, sometimes advanced by incompatibilists, that determinism is no different than such covert manipulation (see Pereboom, 2001), though further tests of this question would be useful. [42] Sim”
Free will in everyday life: Autobiographical accounts of free and unfree actions (2011, background): “…to understanding lay intuitions about free will has been to understand how judgments about human actions vary when the actions are described as originating in a deterministic universe as compared to a nondeterministic universe (Nahmias, Morris, Nadelhoffer, & Turner, 2005; Nichols, 2004, 2006).”
From Uncaused Will to Conscious Choice: The Need to Study, Not Speculate About People’s Folk Concept of Free Will (2010, unknown): “For example, a number of recent studies have probed individuals' reasoning about human action in light of a deterministic universe (e.g. Nahmias et al. 2005; Nichols 2004, 2006).”
The Phenomenology of Agency (2008, background): “One might argue that first-person agentive experience is a route — perhaps the primary route — to first-person knowledge of agency.”