Moral Agency Theory and the Quantum Agent Selection Model for Free Will and Conciousness

Libertarian free will is not ruled out by current scientific knowledge, only by physicalist interpretations of current science. This paper proposes the Quantum Agent Selection Model, which articulates the mechanism by which libertarian free will could plausibly coexist with current scientific knowledge. Without libertarian free will, human beings are just biological machines whose every behaviour is predetermined or random, with any praiseworthy or blameworthy human action arising from prior conditions or randomness. To move the free will debate from metaphysics to science, this paper also proposes Moral Agency Theory, a scientific research program for identifying upper and lower bounds on the degree that a person could have chosen otherwise.