Free Will and Substance Dualism: The Real Scientific Threat to Free Will?

In Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 4. MIT Press (2014)
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Mele uses survey methods of experimental philosophy to argue that folk notions of freedom and responsibility do not really require any dubious mind–body dualism. In his comment, Nadelhoffer questions Mele's interpretation of the experiments and adds contrary data of his own. Vargas then suggests that Mele overlooks yet another threat to free will—sourcehood. Mele replies by reinterpreting Nadelhoffer's data and rejecting Vargas’ claim that free will requires sourcehood.

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