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:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work looks both at recent experimental and theoretical work directly related to free will, and at ways leading psychologists from all branches of psychology deal with the philosophical problems long associated with the question of free will.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction: Psychology and Free Will; 2. How Can Psychology Contribute to the Free Will Debate?; 3. Determined and Free; 4. Self-Theories: The Construction of Free Will; 5. Free Will, Consciousness, and Cultural Animals; 6. Reconstrual of "Free Will" From the Agentic Perspective of Social Cognitive Theory; 7. Free Will Is Un-natural; 8. The Automaticity Juggernaut-or, Are We Automatons After All?; 9. The Hazards of Claiming to Have Solved the Hard Problem of Free Will; 10. Free Will and the Control of Action; 11. Self Is Magic

12. Some Observations on the Psychology of Thinking About Free Will13. Whose Will? How Free?; 14. Free Will as a Proportion of Variance; 15. Willing Creation: The Yin and Yang of the Creative Life; 16. Free Will Requires Determinism; 17. The Fear of Determinism; 18. Psychology and Free Will: A Commentary; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-029347-0

9786611162740

0-19-804085-7

1-281-16274-4

OCLC:

922953273