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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Ross, Don
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass MIT Press 2007
The MIT Press
A Bradford Book
Edition1
SeriesA Bradford Book
Subjects
Act (Philosophy)
Action theory
Behavioural sciences
Brain
Cognition
Conceptualization
Decision making
Distributed cognition
Freedom
Mind
Responsibility
Self-reliance
Social philosophy
Will
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ISBN0262681692
9780262681698
9780262182614
0262182610
DOI10.7551/mitpress/7463.001.0001

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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- 1 Introduction: Science Catches the Will -- 2 The Puzzle of Coaction -- 3 What Kind of Agent Are We? A Naturalistic Framework for the Study of Human Agency -- 4 The Illusion of Freedom Evolves -- 5 Neuroscience and Agent-Control -- 6 My Body Has a Mind of Its Own -- 7 Soft Selves and Ecological Control -- 8 The Sources of Behavior: Toward a Naturalistic, Control Account of Agency -- 9 Thought Experiments That Explore Where Controlled Experiments Can't: The Example of Will -- 10 The Economic and Evolutionary Basis of Selves -- 11 Situated Cognition: The Perspect Model -- 12 The Evolutionary Origins of Volition -- 13 What Determines the Self in Self-Regulation? Applied Psychology's Struggle with Will -- 14 Civil Schizophrenia -- Index