Consapevolezza, decisioni e spontaneità: una discussione sulla scientificità delle conclusioni di Libet sul libero arbitrio

Name: Consapevolezza, decisioni e spontaneità: una discussione sulla scientificità delle conclusioni di Libet sul libero arbitrio
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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2017 - 2

Titolo

Consapevolezza, decisioni e spontaneità: una discussione sulla scientificità delle conclusioni di Libet sul libero arbitrio

Autore

Pietro Spano

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Vita e Pensiero

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11-2017

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0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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The aim of this article is to verify whether Libet’s conclusion about free will can be considered scientifically based or not. In order to accomplish that, we examine whether the actions he asked his experimental subjects to perform could be considered adequate for a better understanding of free will or not. Through a compared analysis of the experience of free will and the actions Libet required the subjects of his experiment to accomplish, it clearly appears that Libet did not – and actually could not – analyse the experience of free will. He did not realise that asking to the subjects to act spontaneously implied for them the impossibility to experience the free will, and therefore for him the impossibility to analyse it. As a result we conclude that Libet’s experiments focus on something which is not free will. Consequently, his conclusions about free will cannot be considered scientifically proved.