Effective intentions
Subtitle: the power of conscious will
By: Alfred R. Mele.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780195384260
Subjects: Will; Consciousness; Intentionalism
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Occurrent and standing intentions; title: Proximal and distal intentions and intentional action; title: Decisions; title: Preview; title: Conscious intentions and decisions; title: What is the question?; title: A thin reading of "conscious intention"; title: Questions answered : functional roles and folk theories; title: Conscious decisions; title: Neuroscience and causes of action; title: Libet's studies : data, inferences, and problems; title: A test : reaction times; title: Neuroscience and free will; title: Action initiation; title: More on vetoing; title: Free will and the liberty of indifference; title: Intentional actions and the alleged illusion of conscious wiii; title: Wegner on the iIllusion of conscious wil; title: Hypothesis H and table turning; title: More on ideomotor action; title: Conscious and nonconscious proximal intentions; title: Wegner on free will and the magical self; title: Proximal intentions and awareness reports; title: A recent study; title: Motor intentions and actions; title: Accuracy; title: The power of conscious will; title: Proximal decisions and an imaginary experiment; title: Implementation intentions : some findings; title: Implementation intentions and decisions : causal issues; title: Epiphenomenalism, proximal intentions, and hypothetical empirical discoveries; title: Free will and hypothetical empirical discoveries.