Human agency and neural causes : philosophy of action and the neuroscience of voluntary agency /
In exploring whether our neuroscientific discoveries are consistent with the idea we are voluntary agents, this text presents a neuroscientifically-informed emergentist account of human agency. In contrast with the assumptions that currently shape neuropsychological research on voluntary agency, J.D...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Libet-style experiments and volitions
- The need for an analysis of human agency
- An Aristotelian account of human agency
- Compatibilist concerns
- Choices and voluntary conduct
- Neuronal mechanisms and voluntary conduct
- A metaphysical framework : voluntary agency, emergence and downward causation.