Human Agency and Neural Causes - Philosophy of Action and the Neuroscience of Voluntary Agency

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: J Runyan, J. Runyan, J. D. Runyan, Jason D. Runyan, Runyan J
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2013
• EAN: 9781137329486
• ISBN: 978-1-137-32948-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, Philosophie des Geistes, Experimentelle Psychologie, Biopsychologie, Physiologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie, Philosophy of Mind, Experimental Psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Psychology, Experimental