HNRS 142Free Will and Moral Responsibility: From Neuroscience to Philosophy and Back
Honors Collegium · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Survey of motivations, methods, and conclusions of neuroscientific and psychological investigations of free will. Consideration of neuroscientific arguments that humans are not free when they choose and of philosophical arguments about what is required for freedom and what is required for responsibility. Discussion of extent to which philosophical investigations of free will inform neuroscience and whether and how experiments could be designed and carried out to better correspond with philosophical and legal debate on free will.
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When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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