P. S. Greenspan, "Free Will and the Genome Project," Philosophy and Public
Affairs, 22 (1993), 31-43
Abstract
Popular and scientific accounts of the U.S. Human Genome Project
often express concern about the implications of the project for the
philosophic question of free will and responsibility. However, on
its standard construal within philosophy, the question of free will
versus determinism poses no special problems in relation to genetic
research. The paper identifies a variant version of the free will
question, free will versus internal constraint, that might well
pose a threat to notions of individual autonomy and virtue in
connection with genetic research. Whether it does depends on the
extent to which the genetic basis for behavior turns on behavioral
incapacities.
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