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Human will : the search for its physical basis
- Title
- Human will : the search for its physical basis / Allan Abraham Harkavy.
- Author
- Harkavy, Allan Abraham, 1925-
- Publication
- New York : P. Lang, [1995], ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BJ1468.5 .H37 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 132 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Revisioning philosophy, 0899-9937 ; vol. 22
- Uniform Title
- Revisioning philosophy ; v. 22.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: Causality and quantum mechanics: Nature and the will mechanism -- 2. Recent History of Scientific Concepts of Will -- 3. Group Theory Model of the Brain -- 4. Group Theory and Visual Adaptation -- 5. Comments to Excerpts of Early Speculations of Scientists (1927-1955) -- 6. Discussion of Writings of Scientists and Philosophers After 1955 -- 7. Concepts of the Will Mechanism -- 8. Speculations Concerning Will and a Local God -- 9. Recent Hypotheses of Several Scientists and Philosophers -- Appendix 1: Newton's Three Laws of Motion -- Appendix 2: Quantum Mechanics and Classical Mechanics -- Appendix 3: One-Dimensional Random Walk.
- ISBN
- 0820425915 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94022606
- OCLC
- 30809549
- ocm30809549
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries