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Human agency and neural causes : philosophy of action and the neuroscience of voluntary agency
- Title
- Human agency and neural causes : philosophy of action and the neuroscience of voluntary agency / J.D. Runyan, Indiana Wesleyan University, USA.
- Author
- Runyan, J. D. (Jason Douglas), 1978-
- Publication
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QP360.5 .R86 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 232 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- In exploring whether our neuroscientific discoveries are consistent with the idea we are voluntary agents, this text presents a neuroscientifically-informed emergentist account of human agency. In contrast with the assumptions that currently shape neuropsychological research on voluntary agency, J.D. Runyan presents a broadly-conceived Aristotelian account of voluntary agency grounded in our everyday thought about our conduct.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Libet-style experiments and volitions -- The need for an analysis of human agency -- An Aristotelian account of human agency -- Compatibilist concerns -- Choices and voluntary conduct -- Neuronal mechanisms and voluntary conduct -- A metaphysical framework : voluntary agency, emergence and downward causation.
- ISBN
- 9781137329486 (alk. paper)
- 1137329483 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014002943
- 99958616304
- OCLC
- ocn869552576
- 869552576
- SCSB-5745402
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries