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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814924703321

Titolo

Does consciousness cause behavior? / / edited by Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, and Shaun Gallagher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-09670-2

0-262-28169-4

1-4237-6989-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PockettSusan

BanksWilliam P

GallagherShaun <1948->

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Consciousness

Neuropsychology

Mind and body

Intention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The neuroscience of movement / Susan Pockett -- Consciousness of action as an embodied consciousness / Marc Jeannerod -- Intentions, actons, and the self / Suparna Choudhury and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore -- Free choice and the human brain / Richard E. Passingham and Hakwan C. Lau -- Consciousness, intentionality, and causality / Walter J. Freeman -- Where's the action? Epiphenomenalism and the problem of free will / Shaun Gallagher -- Empirical constraints on the problem of free will / Peter W. Ross -- Toward a dynamic theory of intentions / Elisabeth Pacherie -- Phenomenology and the feeling of doing : Wegner on the conscious will / Timothy Bayne -- Free will : theories, analysis, and data / Alfred R. Mele -- Of windmills and straw men : folk assumptions of mind and action / Bertram F. Malle -- Does consciousness cause misbehavior? / William P. Banks -- Free will as a social institution / Wolfgang Prinz -- Truth and/or consequences : neuroscience and criminal responsibility / Leonard V. Kaplan -- Bypassing conscious control : unconscious imitation, media violence,



and freedom of speech / Susan Hurley -- Neurosociety ahead? Debating free will in the media / Sabine Maasen.

Sommario/riassunto

Continuing the debate over whether consciousness causes behaviour or plays no functional role in it, leading scholars discuss the question in terms of neuroscience, philosophy, law and public policy.