Human Agency and Neural Causes

Philosophy of Action and the Neuroscience of Voluntary Agency

J. Runyan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2013
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-32948-6 (ISBN)

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Human Agency and Neural Causes provides an analysis of our everyday thought about our conduct, and the neuroscience research concerning voluntary agency. J.D. Runyan argues that our findings through neuroscience are consistent with what would be expected if we are, in fact, voluntary agents.

J. D. Runyan is Associate Professor of Neuropsychology at Indiana Wesleyan University, USA. He performed graduate research in neuroscience at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, USA, before completing a doctorate at the University of Oxford, UK. His research spans neuroscience, psychology, and philosophical psychology.

1. Introduction 2. Libet-Style Experiments and Volitions 3. The Need for an Analysis of Human Agency 4. An Aristotelian Account of Human Agency 5. Compatibilist Concerns 6. Choices and Voluntary Conduct 7. Neuronal Mechanisms and Voluntary Conduct 8. A Metaphysical Framework: Voluntary Agency, Emergence and Downward Causation

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.11.2013
Zusatzinfo	XII, 232 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	1-137-32948-3 / 1137329483
ISBN-13	978-1-137-32948-6 / 9781137329486
Zustand	Neuware