https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Freedom-Beyond-Metaphysics https://booksandideas.net/Freedom-Beyond-Metaphysics 2024-04-18T08:35:19Z text/html en Jean-Pascal Anfray Philosophy responsibility freedom causality Cairn.info <p>Are we free, or are our actions determined by natural causes? The problem thus posed is a metaphysical construct: From late antiquity onwards, the authentic meaning of freedom as a principle of action has been obscured by the invention of free will and the excessive importance given to the concept of the will.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Neuroethics-a-New-Frontier-in-the https://booksandideas.net/Neuroethics-a-New-Frontier-in-the 2014-01-09T09:00:00Z text/html en Stanislas Dehaene responsibility freedom science neurosciences ethics Institut du monde contemporain <p>What does the science of the brain tell us about our moral judgments and behavior? Two books address that question in presenting a new discipline: neuroethics.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-crisis-is-more-than-economics https://booksandideas.net/The-crisis-is-more-than-economics 2009-04-01T10:09:55Z text/html en Martin Albrow & Colin Bradford Politics finance globalisation responsibility la suite gauche Dossier - Une regulation reform governance La crise économique liberalization <p>At the London G20 Summit, hosted by Gordon Brown, the leaders of the major new “great powers”, China, India and Brazil, will be prominent. What can be expected from this meeting? The G20 will only fill the vacuum at the centre if it addresses the broader systemic crisis of responsibility and accountability that arises out of the West's worship of the free market.</p>