Review of Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown, Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will

By Teneille Brown. 2007

87 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ecf29016d115e624e37480cea98eb0de225ee87a

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. T. O’Connor
2. G. Ellis
3. Nancey C. Murphy
4. Lorenzo Iorio
5. Jean-Philippe Uzan
6. Clarissa-Marie Claudel
7. Jose Beltrán Jiménez
8. T. Buchert

Citations in the corpus

• Downward causation and the neurobiology of free will (2009, background): “…call Cartesian materialism, by which we mean the assumption that the real “I” is reducible to my consciousness or to any sort of event inside my head (Murphy & Brown 2007).5 The attribution of agency to something inside the person – such as a brain event – is one instance of reductionism, in that…”