Full title: The volitional brain : towards a neuroscience of free will / edited by Benjamin Libet, Anthony Freeman and Keith Sutherland.

Author/creator: Freeman, Anthony, 1946-, Libet, Benjamin, 1916-, Sutherland, Keith.

Date: 1999..

Call Numbers: N123.5/13

Record Identifier: 74VvGaR8pdod

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xxii, 298 p. : ill. ; 27 cm., On volition: a neurophysiologically oriented essay / David H. Ingvar -- Towards a functional anatomy of volition / Sean A. Spence and Chris D. Frith -- The primate basal ganglia and the voluntary control of behaviour / Wolfram Schultz -- Do we have free will? / Benjamin Libet -- Volition and the readiness potential / Gilberto Gomes -- A variety of religious experience: William James and the non-reality of free will / Jonathan Bricklin -- Whodunnit? Unpicking the 'seems' of free will / Guy Claxton -- A role for volition and attention in the generation of new brain circuitry: towards a neurobiology of mental force / Jeffrey M. Schwartz -- Attention, intention and will in quantum physics / Henry P. Stapp -- The physics of interactionism / Ulrich Mohrhoff -- Mind-brain interaction and violation of physical laws / David L. Wilson -- Hume's mistake / David Hodgson -- Self agency and mental causation / E.J. Lowe -- A bifold model of free will / John McCrone -- And now a brief word from now: logical dependencies between vernacular concepts of free will, time and consciousness / Jaron Lanier -- Y's domain / Whit Blauvelt -- Decisive action: personal responsibility all the way down / Anthony Freeman -- Fear of mechanism: a compatibilist critique of 'The volitional brain'.

Publishers: Thorverton : Imprint Academic, 1999.

Notes: Journal of consciousness studies, 1355-8250 ; 6, no. 8-9. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 123.5

MMS ID: 991012607579702626