As far as I can tell, the neuroscience approach to cognitive science only informs cognitive theory on the subject of free will (itself, as Locke demonstrated ably, a misnomer) to the tune of what cognitive theory already understood: that all conscious experience is of the past. This doesn’t mean that agency is preceded by biological determination, but that the experience of having “reached a decision” is preceded by the fact of “coming to a decision.” It does belie certain intuitions, but careful cognitive theorists have usually been beyond this (not so much scientists, who are therefore now discovering this) for some time. Certainly none of these findings would have disturbed Locke, Berkely, Liebniz, Hume, or Kant.

Cheers,
PGE