Surrounding free will : philosophy, psychology, neuroscience

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mele, Alfred R., 1951- Contributor.

Mele, Alfred R., 1951- Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores free will from several perspectives: neuroscience; social, cognitive, and developmental psychology; and philosophy (traditional and experimental).

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

1. Introduction

Alfred Mele

2. The Origins and Development of Our Conception of Free Will

Alison Gopnik and Tamar Kushnir

3. Free Will without Metaphysics

Andrew E. Monroe and Bertram F. Malle

4. Free Will: Belief and Reality

Roy Baumeister, Cory Clark, and Jamie Luguri

5. Measuring and Manipulating Beliefs and Behaviors Associated with Free Will: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Jonathan Schooler, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Eddy Nahmias, and Kathleen Vohs

6. Incompatibilism and Bypassed Agency

Gunnar Björnsson

7. Naturalizing Free Will: Paths and Pitfalls

Hakwan Lau and Myrto Mylopoulos

8. "Free will": Components and Processes

Patrick Haggard

9. Change of Intention in "Picking" Situations

Ariel Furstenberg, Leon Y. Deouell, and Haim Sompolinsky

10. On Reporting the Onset of the Intention to Move

Uri Maoz, Liad Mudrik, Ram Rivlin, Ian Ross, Adam Mamelak, and Gideon Yaffe

11. Dissecting Readiness Potential: an Investigation of the Relationship Between Readiness Potentials, Conscious willing, and Action

Prescott Alexander, Alexander Schlegel, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Adina Roskies, Peter Ulric Tse, and Thalia Wheatley

12. Monkey Decision-Making as a Model System for Human Decision-Making

Adina Roskies

13. The Problem of Determinism and Free Will Is Not the Problem of Determinism and Free Will

Carolina Sartorio

14. On Being Some-One

J. T. Ismael

15. Negligent Action and Unwitting Omission

Randolph Clarke

Appendix: Free Will Lexicon

Patrick Haggard, Alfred Mele, Timothy O'Connor, and Kathleen Vohs

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-939384-2