Are we free? : psychology and free will / edited by John Baer, James C. Kaufman, Roy F. Baumeister.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baer, John.

Kaufman, James C.

Baumeister, Roy F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Psychology and Free Will / John Baer, James C. Kaufman, Roy F. Baumeister 3

2 How Can Psychology Contribute to the Free Will Debate? / Shaun Nichols 10

3 Determined and Free / David G. Myers 32

4 Self-Theories: The Construction of Free Will / Carol S. Dweck, Daniel C. Molden 44

5 Free Will, Consciousness, and Cultural Animals / Roy F. Baumeister 65

6 Reconstrual of "Free Will" From the Agentic Perspective of Social Cognitive Theory / Albert Bandura 86

7 Free Will Is Un-natural / John A. Bargh 128

8 The Automaticity Juggernaut-or, Are We Automatons After All? / John F. Kihlstrom 155

9 The Hazards of Claiming to Have Solved the Hard Problem of Free Will / Azim F. Shariff, Jonathan Schooler, Kathleen D. Vohs 181

10 Free Will and the Control of Action / Henry L. Roediger, III, Michael K. Goode, Franklin M. Zaromb 205

11 Self Is Magic / Daniel M. Wegner 226

12 Some Observations on the Psychology of Thinking About Free Will / Daniel C. Dennett 248

13 Whose Will? How Free? / George S. Howard 260

14 Free Will as a Proportion of Variance / William R. Miller, David J. Atencio 275

15 Willing Creation: The Yin and Yang of the Creative Life / Dean Keith Simonton 296

16 Free Will Requires Determinism / John Baer 304

17 The Fear of Determinism / Steven Pinker 311

18 Psychology and Free Will: A Commentary / Alfred R. Mele 325.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195189636

0195189639

OCLC:

169873676