The volitional brain
Subtitle: towards a neuroscience of free will
By: edited by Benjamin Libet, Anthony Freeman and Keith Sutherland.
Contributors: Libet, Benjamin, 1916-; Freeman, Anthony, 1946-; Sutherland, Keith, 1951-
Series: Journal of consciousness studies -- 6, no. 8-9.
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Thorverton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Brain; Neuropsychology; Free will and determinism; Brain; Neuropsychology; Free will and determinism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On volition: a neurophysiologically oriented essay / David H. Ingvar; title: Towards a functional anatomy of volition / Sean A. Spence and Chris D. Frith; title: The primate basal ganglia and the voluntary control of behaviour / Wolfram Schultz; title: Do we have free will? / Benjamin Libet; title: Volition and the readiness potential / Gilberto Gomes; title: A variety of religious experience: William James and the non-reality of free will / Jonathan Bricklin; title: Whodunnit? Unpicking the 'seems' of free will / Guy Claxton; title: A role for volition and attention in the generation of new brain circuitry: towards a neurobiology of mental force / Jeffrey M. Schwartz; title: Attention, intention and will in quantum physics / Henry P. Stapp; title: The physics of interactionism / Ulrich Mohrhoff; title: Mind-brain interaction and violation of physical laws / David L. Wilson; title: Hume's mistake / David Hodgson; title: Self agency and mental causation / E.J. Lowe; title: A bifold model of free will / John McCrone; title: And now a brief word from now: logical dependencies between vernacular concepts of free will, time and consciousness / Jaron Lanier; title: Y's domain / Whit Blauvelt; title: Decisive action: personal responsibility all the way down / Anthony Freeman; title: Fear of mechanism: a compatibilist critique of 'The volitional brain'.