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Voluntary Action Brains, Minds, and Sociality

Maasen Sabine Prinz Wolfgang Roth Gerhard
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198527541
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
664 gr
Høyde
269 mm
Bredde
193 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
392

Redaktør
Maasen Sabine
Prinz Wolfgang
Roth Gerhard

Voluntary Action Brains, Minds, and Sociality

Maasen Sabine Prinz Wolfgang Roth Gerhard
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk
Maasen Sabine Prinz Wolfgang Roth Gerhard
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk
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. . . the book represents a very good overview of existing arguments and research relating to the topic of free will. Every chapter is unique and very much up to date . . . the book is a very good investment.

Science and Consciousness Review

We all know what a voluntary action is - we all think we know when an action is voluntary, and when it is not. First, there has to be some wish or goal, then an action designed to fulfil that wish or attain that goal. This standard view of voluntary action is prominent in both folk psychology and the professional sphere (e.g. the juridical) and guides a great deal of psychological and philosophical reasoning. But is it that simple though? For example, research from the neurosciences has shown us that the brain activation required to perform the action can actually precede the brain activation representing our conscious desire to perform that action. Only in retrospect do we come to attribute the action we performed to some desire or wish to perform the action. This presents us with a problem - if our conscious awareness of an action follows its execution, then is it really a voluntary action? The question guiding this book: What is the explanatory role of voluntary action, and are there ways that we can reconcile our common-sense intuitions about voluntary actions with the findings from the sciences? This is a debate that crosses the boundaries of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology and social science. This book brings together some of the leading thinkers from these disciplines to consider this deep and often puzzling topic. The result is a fascinating and stimulating debate that will challenge our fundamental assumptions about our sense of free-will.
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This text examines the concept of voluntary action, taking into account findings in neuroscience that the brain activation required to perform the action can actually precede the brain activation representing our conscious desire to perform that action.
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Voluntary action: brains, minds, and sociality ; SECTION I: BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND CONTROL: PSYCHOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 1. How do we know about our own actions? ; 2. Acquisition and control of voluntary action ; 3. Voluntary action and cognitive control from a cognitive neuroscience perspective ; 4. Voluntary action from the perspective of social-personality psychology ; SECTION II: BETWEEN CORTEX AND THE BASAL GANGLIA: NEUROSCIENTIFIC ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 5. The interaction of cortex and basal ganglia in the control of voluntary actions ; 6. How do we control action? ; 7. Self-generated actions ; SECTION III: BETWEEN EPIPHENOMENALISM AND RATIONALITY: PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 8. Mental causation: the supervenience argument and the proportionality constraint ; 9. The explanatory role of consciousness in action ; 10. How voluntary are minimal actions ; 11. Rational and irrational intentions: an argument for externalism ; SECTION IV: BETWEEN THE NORMATIVE AND THE SYMBOLIC: JURIDICIAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 12. First-person understanding of action in criminal law ; 13. Voluntary action and criminal responsibility ; 14. Culture and human development in a theory of action beliefs ; SECTION V: QUESTIONING THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD ; 15. A polytheistic conception of the sciences and the virtues of deep variety ; 16. A view from elsewhere: the emergence of consciousness in multidisciplinary discourse
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A groundbreaking and thought provoking book that challenges fundamental assumptions about our sense of free-will Multidisciplinary - includes contributions from leading psychologists, philosophers and sociologists Written to appeal to students and researchers with the cognitive and social sciences
Les mer
A groundbreaking and thought provoking book that challenges fundamental assumptions about our sense of free-will Multidisciplinary - includes contributions from leading psychologists, philosophers and sociologists Written to appeal to students and researchers with the cognitive and social sciences
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. . . the book represents a very good overview of existing arguments and research relating to the topic of free will. Every chapter is unique and very much up to date . . . the book is a very good investment.

Science and Consciousness Review

We all know what a voluntary action is - we all think we know when an action is voluntary, and when it is not. First, there has to be some wish or goal, then an action designed to fulfil that wish or attain that goal. This standard view of voluntary action is prominent in both folk psychology and the professional sphere (e.g. the juridical) and guides a great deal of psychological and philosophical reasoning. But is it that simple though? For example, research from the neurosciences has shown us that the brain activation required to perform the action can actually precede the brain activation representing our conscious desire to perform that action. Only in retrospect do we come to attribute the action we performed to some desire or wish to perform the action. This presents us with a problem - if our conscious awareness of an action follows its execution, then is it really a voluntary action? The question guiding this book: What is the explanatory role of voluntary action, and are there ways that we can reconcile our common-sense intuitions about voluntary actions with the findings from the sciences? This is a debate that crosses the boundaries of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology and social science. This book brings together some of the leading thinkers from these disciplines to consider this deep and often puzzling topic. The result is a fascinating and stimulating debate that will challenge our fundamental assumptions about our sense of free-will.
Les mer
This text examines the concept of voluntary action, taking into account findings in neuroscience that the brain activation required to perform the action can actually precede the brain activation representing our conscious desire to perform that action.
Les mer
Voluntary action: brains, minds, and sociality ; SECTION I: BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND CONTROL: PSYCHOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 1. How do we know about our own actions? ; 2. Acquisition and control of voluntary action ; 3. Voluntary action and cognitive control from a cognitive neuroscience perspective ; 4. Voluntary action from the perspective of social-personality psychology ; SECTION II: BETWEEN CORTEX AND THE BASAL GANGLIA: NEUROSCIENTIFIC ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 5. The interaction of cortex and basal ganglia in the control of voluntary actions ; 6. How do we control action? ; 7. Self-generated actions ; SECTION III: BETWEEN EPIPHENOMENALISM AND RATIONALITY: PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 8. Mental causation: the supervenience argument and the proportionality constraint ; 9. The explanatory role of consciousness in action ; 10. How voluntary are minimal actions ; 11. Rational and irrational intentions: an argument for externalism ; SECTION IV: BETWEEN THE NORMATIVE AND THE SYMBOLIC: JURIDICIAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 12. First-person understanding of action in criminal law ; 13. Voluntary action and criminal responsibility ; 14. Culture and human development in a theory of action beliefs ; SECTION V: QUESTIONING THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD ; 15. A polytheistic conception of the sciences and the virtues of deep variety ; 16. A view from elsewhere: the emergence of consciousness in multidisciplinary discourse
Les mer
A groundbreaking and thought provoking book that challenges fundamental assumptions about our sense of free-will Multidisciplinary - includes contributions from leading psychologists, philosophers and sociologists Written to appeal to students and researchers with the cognitive and social sciences
Les mer
A groundbreaking and thought provoking book that challenges fundamental assumptions about our sense of free-will Multidisciplinary - includes contributions from leading psychologists, philosophers and sociologists Written to appeal to students and researchers with the cognitive and social sciences
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198527541
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
664 gr
Høyde
269 mm
Bredde
193 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
392

Redaktør
Maasen Sabine
Prinz Wolfgang
Roth Gerhard

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