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Does consciousness cause behavior?

Author: Susan Pockett; William P Banks; Shaun Gallagher
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
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Leading scholars continue the debate over whether consciousness causes behavior or plays no functional role in it, discussing the question in terms of neuroscience, philosophy, law, and public policy.  Read more...

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Does consciousness cause behavior?
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006
(OCoLC)623015260
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Pockett; William P Banks; Shaun Gallagher
ISBN: 0262162377 9780262162371
OCLC Number: 61351621
Description: vi, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The neuroscience of movement / Susan Pockett --
Consciousness of action as an embodied consciousness / Marc Jeannerod --
Intentions, actons, and the self / Suparna Choudhury and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore --
Free choice and the human brain / Richard E. Passingham and Hakwan C. Lau --
Consciousness, intentionality, and causality / Walter J. Freeman --
Where's the action? Epiphenomenalism and the problem of free will / Shaun Gallagher --
Empirical constraints on the problem of free will / Peter W. Ross --
Toward a dynamic theory of intentions / Elisabeth Pacherie --
Phenomenology and the feeling of doing : Wegner on the conscious will / Timothy Bayne --
Free will : theories, analysis, and data / Alfred R. Mele --
Of windmills and straw men : folk assumptions of mind and action / Bertram F. Malle --
Does consciousness cause misbehavior? / William P. Banks --
Free will as a social institution / Wolfgang Prinz --
Truth and/or consequences : neuroscience and criminal responsibility / Leonard V. Kaplan --
Bypassing conscious control : unconscious imitation, media violence, and freedom of speech / Susan Hurley --
Neurosociety ahead? Debating free will in the media / Sabine Maasen.
Responsibility: edited by Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, and Shaun Gallagher.
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"Overall, this is an excellent volume that brings together an impressive cast of commentators on the key question for consciousness studies: does the c word actually do anything." Jonjoe McFadden Read more...

 
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