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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (373 p.)
• Disciplina: 153
• Soggetto topico: Consciousness; Neuropsychology; Mind and body; Intention
• Soggetto non controllato: NEUROSCIENCE/General; COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
• Altri autori: PockettSusan BanksWilliam P GallagherShaun <1948->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Does consciousness cause behavior
• ISBN: 1-282-09670-2; 0-262-28169-4; 1-4237-6989-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814924703321
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