{"id":22461,"date":"2010-03-12T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=22461"},"modified":"2015-06-26T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T16:38:17","slug":"freedom-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/12\/freedom-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dartmouth College philosophy professor to discuss free will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/roskies.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/roskies.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Adina Roskies\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adina Roskies, an assistant professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College, discusses the limitations and potential for neuroscience in the study of free will in a talk titled <em>Freedom Despite Mechanism<\/em> at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, March 25, in Pettengill Hall&#8217;s Keck Classroom, Room G52, Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the philosophy and psychology departments with support from the Mellon Innovation Fund, this lecture is open to the public at no cost.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Roskie, a member of Dartmouth&#8217;s philosophy department since 2004, has pursued a career in both philosophy and neuroscience. She simultaneously earned master&#8217;s degrees in both disciplines at the University of California, San Diego, and received a doctorate in neuroscience in 1995. From 1997 to 1999 she held the position of senior editor at the neuroscience journal Neuron.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999 Roskies returned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to complete a second doctorate in philosophy. Her research topics include philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and ethics. She was a member of the McDonnell Project in Neurophilosophy, a group aiming to integrate philosophical thought with neurobiological research.<\/p>\n<p>Roskies recently received a fellowship by the Australian Research Council, and has worked as a visiting professor in the philosophy department at the Australian National University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adina Roskies, an assistant professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College, discusses the limitations and potential for neuroscience in the study of free will at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, March 25, in Pettengill Hall&#8217;s Keck Classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3684,193,6982,7227],"class_list":["post-22461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","tag-free-will","tag-neuroscience","tag-philosophy","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88107,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461\/revisions\/88107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}