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  title info:
    title: Distributed cognition and the will
    sub title: individual volition and social context
  name:
    name part: Ross, Don
    name part: 1962-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©2007
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 369 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Philosophers and behavioral scientists discuss what, if anything, of the traditional concept of individual conscious will can survive recent scientific discoveries that human decision-making is distributed across different brain processes and through the social environment.Recent scientific findings about human decision making would seem to threaten the traditional concept of the individual conscious will. The will is threatened from "below" by the discovery that our apparently spontaneous actions are actually controlled and initiated from below the level of our conscious awareness, and from "above" by the recognition that we adapt our actions according to social dynamics of which we are seldom aware. In Distributed Cognition and the Will, leading philosophers and behavioral scientists consider how much, if anything, of the traditional concept of the individual conscious will survives these discoveries, and they assess the implications for our sense of freedom and responsibility. The contributors all take science seriously, and they are inspired by the idea that apparent threats to the cogency of the idea of will might instead become the basis of its reemergence as a scientific subject. They consider macro-scale issues of society and culture, the micro-scale dynamics of the mind/brain, and connections between macro-scale and micro-scale phenomena in the self-guidance and self-regulation of personal behavior.ContributorsGeorge Ainslie, Wayne Christensen, Andy Clark, Paul Sheldon Davies, Daniel C. Dennett, Lawrence A. Lengbeyer, Dan Lloyd, Philip Pettit, Don Ross, Tamler Sommers, Betsy Sparrow, Mariam Thalos, Jeffrey B. Vancouver, Daniel M. Wegner, Tadeusz W. Zawidzki
  note: edited by Don Ross [and others].
  note: "A Bradford book."
  subject:
    topic: Will
  subject:
    topic: Act (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Distributed cognition
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY/General
  subject:
    topic: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
  classification: BJ1461 .D57 2007eb
  classification: 128/.3
  identifier: 9780262282635
  identifier: 0262282631
  identifier: 9781429492423
  identifier: 1429492422
  identifier: 9780262182614
  identifier: 0262182610
  identifier: 9780262681698
  identifier: 0262681692
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 070912
    record change date: 20221121162603.5
    record identifier: in00004602074
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng