Understanding Psychological Impossibility

这个项目将通过将哲学理论与认知和脑科学以及实验哲学的结果相结合，开发出第一个心理不可能性的解释。当一件事在我们的心理中没有作为选择的选项时，它在心理上是不可能的。通过对心理不可能性的解释，这个项目将促进我们对自主性、自由意志和道德责任的理解。它还将为政策制定者和法律的和卫生专业人员提供重大利益，为他们提供在与具有不同选择和行动能力的人打交道时进行道德决策所需的理论资源。

This project will develop the first account of psychological impossibility by combining philosophical theorizing with results from the cognitive and brain sciences, and experimental philosophy. Something is psychologically impossible when it is not available in our psychology as an option to choose. Through developing an account of psychological impossibility this project will advance our understanding of the nature of autonomy, free will and moral responsibility. It will also provide major benefits to policy makers and legal and health professionals by giving them the theoretical resources required for ethical decision making when dealing with people that have different affordances for choice and action.