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There is growing evidence from the science of human behavior that our everyday, folk understanding of ourselves as conscious, rational, responsible agents may be radically mistaken. The science, some argue, recommends a view of conscious agency as merely epiphenomenal: an impotent accompaniment to the whirring unconscious machinery (the inner zombie) that prepares, decides and causes our behavior. The new essays in this volume display and explore this radical claim, revisiting the folk concept of the responsible agent after abandoning the image of a central executive, and "decomposing" the notion of the conscious will into multiple interlocking aspects and functions.Part 1 of this volume provides an overview of the scientific research that has been taken to support "the zombie challenge." In part 2, contributors explore the phenomenology of agency and what it is like to be the author of one's own actions. Part 3 then explores different strategies for using the science and phenomenology of human agency to respond to the zombie challenge.Questions explored include: what distinguishes automatic behavior and voluntary action? What, if anything, does consciousness contribute to the voluntary control of behavior? What does the science of human behavior really tell us about the nature of self-control?

Table of Contents:
1: Tillmann Vierkant, Julian Kiverstein, and Andy Clark: Decomposing the WIll: Meeting the Zombie Challenge PART ONE The Zombie Challenge 2: Adina L. Roskies: The Neuroscience of Volition 3: John-Dylan Haynes: Beyond Libet: Long-term Prediction of Free Choices from Neuroimaging Signals 4: Alfred R. Mele: Vetoing and Consciousness 5: Richard Holton: From Determinism to Resignation; and How to Stop It PART TWO The Sense of Agency 6: Manos Tsakiris and Aikaterini Fotopoulou: From the Fact to the Sense of Agency 7: Shaun Gallagher: Ambiguity in the Sense of Agency 8: Fabio Paglieri: There's Nothing Life Being Free: Default Dispositions, Judgments of Freedom, and the Phenomenology of Coercion 9: Tim Bayne: Agency as a Marker of Consciousness PART THREE The Function of Conscious Control: Conflict Resolution, Emotion, and Mental Actions 10: Ezequiel Morsella, Tara C. Dennehy, and John A. Bargh: Voluntary Action and the Three Forms of Binding in the Brain 11: Nico H. Frijda: Emotion Regulation and Free Will 12: Sam J. Maglio, Peter M. Gollwitzer, and Gabriele Oettingen: Action Control by Implementation Intentions: The Role of Discrete Emotions 13: Wayne Wu: Mental Action and the Threat of Automaticity 14: Jo"elle Proust: Mental Acts as Natural Kinds PART FOUR Decomposed Accounts of the Will 15: Tillmann Vierkant: Managerial Control and Free Mental Agency 16: Lars Hall, Petter Johansson, and David de Leon: Recomposing the Will: Distributed Motivation and Computer-Mediated Extrospection 17: Manuel Vargas: Situationism and Moral Responsibility: Free Will in Fragments

About the Author :
Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Julian Kiverstein is Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at University of the Edinburgh. Tillmann Vierkant is Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Review :
"Overall, this is a well-rounded and balanced selection, which offers much needed cross-discipline debate."--Marcela Herdova, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "An excellent starting place--the only starting place, really--for academics (and some astute undergraduates) interested in this interdisciplinary topic."--Brendan Triffett, Metapsychology Online Reviews


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199746996
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 163 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Spine Width: 38 mm
  • Width: 239 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199746990
  • Publisher Date: 28 Mar 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Philosophy of Mind Series
  • Weight: 607 gr


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