Free will and consciousness : how might they work?
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Free will and consciousness : how might they work?
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This volume is aimed at readers who wish to move beyond debates about the existence of free will and the efficacy of consciousness and closer to appreciating how free will and consciousness might operate. It draws from philosophy and psychology, the two fields that have grappled most fundamentally with these issues. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors explore such issues as how free will is connected to rational choice, planning, and self-control; roles
for consciousness in decision making; the nature and power of conscious deciding; connections among free will, consciousness, and quantum mechanics; why free will and consciousness might have evolved; how consciousness develops in individuals; the experience of free will; effects on behavior of the
belief that free will is an illusion; and connections between free will and moral responsibility in lay thinking. Collectively, these state-of-the-art chapters by accomplished psychologists and philosophers provide a glimpse into the future of research on free will and consciousness.
Table of Contents
1. Alfred R. Mele, Kathleen D. Vohs, And Roy F. Baumeister: Free Will and Consciousness: Introduction and Overview of Perspectives
2. Merlin Donald: Consciousness and The Freedom to Act
3. Roy. F. Baumeister: Understanding Free Will and Consciousness on the Basis of Current Research Findings in Psychology
4. Alfred R. Mele: Conscious Deciding and the Science of Free Will
5. Kathleen D. Vohs: Free Will is Costly: Action Control, Making Choices, Mental Time Travel, and Impression Management Use Precious Volitional Resources
6. Richard Holton: Disentangling the Will
7. David A. Pizarro And Eric Helzer: Stubborn Moralism and Freedom of the Will
8. John R. Searle: Consciousness and the Problem of Free Will
9. Stephanie M. Carlson: Development of Conscious Control and Imagination
10. Adina L. Roskies: Freedom, Neural Mechanism, and Consciousness
11. Jim Blascovich: (Virtual) Reality, Consciousness, and Free Will
12. Jonathan W. Schooler: What Science Tells Us About Free Will
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