Title:

Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility

Principal Investigator:

Professor Warren S. Brown, Director
Lee Edward Travis Research Institute

Professor Nancey Murphy
School of Theology

Grantee:

Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena CA)

Description:

 Grant award $9,500
Start date: August 2003
End date: December 2004
Grant ID# 10775

This grant supported research on the philosophical and neurobiological perspectives on moral responsibility. The co-PIs have written Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?, a manuscript that draws on philosophical arguments and neurobiological research in order to undermine neurobiological reductionism and to defend robust concepts of mental causation and human freedom. The manuscript will be published by Oxford University Press in 2007.

Lecture by Professor Brown on the ideas expressed in the manuscript is available online:
http://www.fuller.edu/sop/ integration/Publications/Warrenfinal3.pdf (PDF)
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