Distributed cognition and the will : individual volition and social context /
Philosophers and behavioral scientists discuss what, if anything, of the traditional concept of individual conscious will can survive recent scientific discoveries that human decision-making is distributed across different brain processes and through the social environment. Recent scientific finding...
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MIT Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | Bradford book.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Don Ross
- The puzzle of coaction / Daniel M. Wegner and Betsy Sparrow
- What kind of agent are we? : a naturalistic framework for the study of human agency / Paul Sheldon Davies
- The illusion of freedom evolves / Tamler Sommers
- Neuroscience and agent-control / Philip Pettit
- My body has a mind of its own / Daniel C. Dennett
- Soft selves and ecological control / Andy Clark
- The sources of behavior : towards a naturalistic, control account of agency / Mariam Thalos
- Thought experiments that explore where controlled experiments can't : the example of will / George Ainslie
- The economic and evolutionary basis of selves / Don Ross
- Situated cognition : the perspect model / Lawrence Lengbeyer
- The evolutionary origins of volition / Wayne Christensen
- What determines the self in self-regulation? applied psychology's struggle with will / Jeffrey B. Vancouver and Tadeusz W. Zawidzki
- Civil schizophrenia / Dan Lloyd.