Ferdinard Fosu-Blankson- Master of Philosophy
- PhD Student at University of Ghana
Ferdinard Fosu-Blankson
- Master of Philosophy
- PhD Student at University of Ghana
I am interested in collaborating and researching on health ethics, neurophilosophy, and philosophy of action.
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I am a doctorate student of Philosophy at the University of Ghana. The foci of my research interest is decision-making; this includes the domain of Neurophilosophy, AI and Health Ethics.
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Neonaticide in Things Fall Apart (TFA) had relative stands, mostly intentional yet mostly unwilful. In the shame of committing neonaticide, blame and responsibility is not easily placed between the earth goddess and the parents of the neonate twins. To uphold the common weal of the community, twins born in Umuofia and the other eight Igbo villages...
In light of the advancement in cognitive neuroscientific investigations of free will, from rCBF to EEG scan techniques and eventually fMRI scan techniques, such advanced studies on free will arguing for human determinism centre their research on the works of Libet and Wegner. The neurobiological experiment of Libet and the cognitive assessment by W...
The research of Benjamin Libet and Daniel Wegner are groundbreaking works in neuropsychology that make arguments against human freedom. However, Libet's and Wegner's arguments are marred with some philosophical inconsistencies including; misconceptions, logical errors, and causal fallacies which seems to emanate from the problem of subjecting the c...
The conventional notion of free will does not possess formidable counter
arguments to modern neurobiological investigations proving the implausibility
of free will. The pool of evidence gathered by cognitive neuroscientists makes
strong justifications to truncate the conception of free will. The research of
Benjamin Libet and Daniel Wegner explicat...
