| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Psychological experiments online |
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Introduction; 1. Do We Have Free Will?; 2. Why Libet's Studies Don't Pose a Threat to Free Will; 3. Libet on Free Will: Readiness Potentials, Decisions, and Awareness; 4. Are Voluntary Movements Initiated Preconsciously? The Relationships between Readiness Potentials, Urges, and Decisions; 5. Do We Really Know What We Are Doing? Implications of Reported Time of Decision for Theories of Volition; 6. Volition: How Physiology Speaks to the Issue of Responsibility; 7. What Are Intentions?; 8. Beyond Libet: Long-term Prediction of Free Choices from Neuroimaging Signals |
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9. Forward Modeling Mediates Motor Awareness10. Volition and the Function of Consciousness; 11. Neuroscience, Free Will, and Responsibility; 12. Bending Time to One's Will; 13. Prospective Codes Fulfilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will; 14. The Phenomenology of Agency and the Libet Results; 15. The Threat of Shrinking Agency and Free Will Disillusionism; 16. Libet and the Criminal Law's Voluntary Act Requirement; 17. Criminal and Moral Responsibility and the Libet Experiments; 18. Libet's Challenge(s) to Responsible Agency; 19. Lessons from Libet; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H |
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IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
| Summary |
We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them. This commonsense view is thrown into dispute by Benjamin Libet's experiments, which suggest that conscious will occurs not before but after the start of brain activity that produces physical action. This book explores this theory and more |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed February 2, 2015) |
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Includes index |
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In English |
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Libet, Benjamin, 1916-2007.
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Libet, Benjamin, 1916-2007 |
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Will.
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Responsibility.
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Psychology.
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Volition
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Psychology
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psychology.
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Psychology
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Responsibility
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Will
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nadel, Lynn.
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Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, 1955-
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