Distributed Cognition and the Will : Individual Volition and Social Context.
Title:
Distributed Cognition and the Will : Individual Volition and Social Context.
Author:
Ross, Don.
ISBN:
9780262282635
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (381 pages)
Contents:
1 Introduction: Science Catches the Will -- 2 The Puzzle of Coaction -- 3 What Kind of Agent Are We? A Naturalistic Framework for the Study of Human Agency -- 4 The Illusion of Freedom Evolves -- 5 Neuroscience and Agent-Control -- 6 My Body Has a Mind of Its Own -- 7 Soft Selves and Ecological Control -- 8 The Sources of Behavior: Toward a Naturalistic, Control Account of Agency -- 9 Thought Experiments That Explore Where Controlled Experiments Can't: The Example of Will -- 10 The Economic and Evolutionary Basis of Selves -- 11 Situated Cognition: The Perspect Model -- 12 The Evolutionary Origins of Volition -- 13 What Determines the Self in Self-Regulation? Applied Psychology's Struggle with Will -- 14 Civil Schizophrenia -- Index.
Abstract:
Philosophers and behavioral scientists discuss what, if anything, of the traditional concept of individual conscious will can survive recent scientific discoveries that human decision-making is distributed across different brain processes and through the social environment.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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