… I will argue that Benjamin Libet’s experiments on volition published in 1983 fit naturally with
psychological research programmes from a hundred years earlier. I will also argue that the …

… -related brain processes puts the neuroscientific account at odds with our … volition requires
a sound methodological framework. In the case of the Libet task, the specific challenge is …

… About 40 years ago, cognitive neuroscientists such as Benjamin Libet have joined the
discussion by demonstrating that an ERP component, the readiness potential (RP), precedes the …

… and neuroscience challenge the validity of this experience and suggest that free will is just
… Furthermore, we excluded the possibility that other brain processes unrelated to volition and …

… , but rather that the intuitive model of volition is overly simplistic—it assumes a causal model
by which an intention is consciously generated and is the immediate cause of an action. Our …

… instead of striving for neuroscience to replace philosophy in … the mere fact that […] volition
has neural underpinnings”, and … work on the same question that fascinated Libet: What is the …

… separated on the basis of the measures used here or in the study by Libet et al. Thus, our
results challenge the conclusion (Libet et al., 1983) that intentional movements are initiated by …

… The immense advances in biology and especially in neuroscience since the 1990s bring the
topic … Libet’s legacy: A primer to the neuroscience of volition. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …

… that stands as a legacy to a unique law professor. Just as in … about what counts as intent,
volition, and rationality are fossils … Our alternative view is that while Libet’s interpretation of the …

… field of volition has greatly expanded since the days of Libet, … intentions are still important
goals for volition neuroscience. … First, I address the problem of volition neuroscience’s lack of a …