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Indeterminism Ltd.: An intervention on the free will debate

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	1˙498˙200 €
EC contributo	1˙498˙200 €
Programma	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)
Code Call	ERC-2010-StG_20091209
Funding Scheme	ERC-SG
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-01-01   -   2015-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT  Organization address address: Heidelberglaan 8 city: UTRECHT postcode: 3584 CS contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Brigitte Cognome: Burger Email: send email Telefono: +31 302536003	NL (UTRECHT)	beneficiary	685˙424.80
2	UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ  Organization address address: UNIVERSITATSSTRASSE 10 city: KONSTANZ postcode: 78457 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Thomas Cognome: Müller Email: send email Telefono: +49 7531 88 2567 Fax: +49 7531 88 3220	DE (KONSTANZ)	hostInstitution	812˙775.20
3	UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ  Organization address address: UNIVERSITATSSTRASSE 10 city: KONSTANZ postcode: 78457 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Christina Cognome: Leib-Kessler Email: send email Telefono: +497531 883605	DE (KONSTANZ)	hostInstitution	812˙775.20

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'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.'