The illusion of free will and its acceptance

pp. 191-203

in: Karl Leidlmair, After cognitivism, Berlin, Springer, 2009

Abstract

My central topic will not be whether we are free or not. Rather, I am concerned with the contrast between the feeling of freely choosing and the parallel intellectual experience that the freedom of the will is a delusion. Also of concern are the possible consequences of the general acceptance, or awareness, of this state of affairs.