Czy naprawdę „bezwolny świat"? Kwestia wolnej woli w literaturze popularnonaukowej na przykładzie tekstu Azima F. Shariffa i Kathleen D. Vohs — Is It Really "The World Without Free Will"?

Łukasz Jach; Łukasz Lamża

doi:10.31648/hip.371

Published: 2018-08-141

No. 22 (2016)

The Issue of the Free Will Problem in Popular Science Literature on the Example of Azim f. Shariff and Kathleen D. Vohs 's Text

Łukasz Jach

, Łukasz Lamża

Humanities and Natural Sciences

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.371

Abstract

Science has an increasingly large effect on the modern society, but at the same time the growing importance of science leads to a higher risk of the occurrence of misconceptions about the current state of knowledge and about what has already been scientifically demonstrated. This puts a strong obligation on scientists to present their research clearly and with due caution when communicating with a wide audience. It is especially important for the issues that are rooted in non-scientific disciplines. One of them is the problem of free will that was discussed by A.F. Shariff and K.D. Vohs in the article The World without Free Will. The authors employ several simplifications that are hereby discussed based on established results of psychology, physics and philosophy of science. We also point to problems that arise when one attempts to extrapolate the results of scientific research about free will to areas of social subsystems other than science.

Keywords:

free will, emergentism, determinism and indeterminism, compatibilism, autopoietic systems

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Jach, Łukasz, & Lamża, Łukasz. (2018). The Issue of the Free Will Problem in Popular Science Literature on the Example of Azim f. Shariff and Kathleen D. Vohs ’s Text. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (22), 75–89. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.371

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