Title: Human agency and neural causes
Description: 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: Cognitive neuroscience, Free will and determinism, Agent (Philosophy), Causation, Psychological aspects, Decision Making, Physiology, Neurosciences, Cognition, Personal Autonomy, Philosophy, Central Nervous System, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Experimental psychology, MEDICAL, Philosophy of mind, SCIENCE, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology