Cel What is the place of man in nature? How do our everyday conceptions of ourselves and the things around us connect with a scientific picture of the world? These questions loom large in the background of the free will debate. We understand ourselves as free agents facing an open future – but is this a tenable picture vis-à-vis scientific findings? Conceptual as well as empirical neuroscientific arguments have recently led to a heated debate on free will that has reached well beyond the academic sphere.My research line will approach this debate from a theoretical perspective, using results from philosophical logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. From that perspective, the main blind spots of the free will debate concern the notions of determinism vs. indeterminism and intervention. Despite its acknowledged centrality for the debate, the notion of indeterminism is insufficiently developed; my research will show how a notion of limited indeterminism can help to dispel many worries about the role of an open future for free will. The notion of intervention, which is prominent in research on causality, is almost completely absent from the free will debate; my research will fill this lacuna. Overall, my aim is to lay the conceptual foundations for and work out the details of a novel, rich notion of indeterminism-based free will.Three sub-projects involving the PI, two post-doc researchers and a Ph.D. candidate will work towards this aim in a modular fashion. Besides contributing to the philosophical free will debate and its broader public ramifications, my research line will interact with neuroscientific research and will open up prospects for future research in theoretical and in practical philosophy. Dziedzina nauki humanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionphilosophymetaphysics Program(-y) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Temat(-y) ERC-SG-SH4 - ERC Starting Grant - The Human Mind and its complexity Zaproszenie do składania wniosków ERC-2010-StG_20091209 Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Instytucja przyjmująca UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ Wkład UE € 812 775,18 Adres UNIVERSITATSSTRASSE 10 78464 Konstanz Niemcy Zobacz na mapie Region Baden-Württemberg Freiburg Konstanz Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kontakt administracyjny Christina Leib-Kessler (Mrs.) Kierownik naukowy Thomas Müller (Dr.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych Beneficjenci (2) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ Niemcy Wkład UE € 812 775,18 Adres UNIVERSITATSSTRASSE 10 78464 Konstanz Zobacz na mapie Region Baden-Württemberg Freiburg Konstanz Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kontakt administracyjny Christina Leib-Kessler (Mrs.) Kierownik naukowy Thomas Müller (Dr.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Zakończenie uczestnictwa Niderlandy Wkład UE € 685 424,82 Adres HEIDELBERGLAAN 8 3584 CS Utrecht Zobacz na mapie Region West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kontakt administracyjny Brigitte Burger (Ms.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych