Via the "Evolutionary Psychology" Yahoogroup, I received an article titled "Does Neuroscience Refute Free Will?" today. I started reading it and realized that it discusses the extent to which neuroscience can establish determinism in the behavioral sciences. This debate reaches beyond general scientific discussion, as determinism in the causation of behavior would, among a host of other things, question any culpability in court. The article discusses (not very favorably) a publication by Princeton Psychologist Joshua Greene.
This debate lies at the heart of my latest project "Order in Spontaneous Behavior".
UPDATE: In the meantime, I've read the original article and some related texts. Indeed, it is precisely the "criminal neglect" with which spontaneity is treated in articles like these that concerns me. I do believe our new project will produce some data to make this neglect a little harder to justify.

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