Distributed Cognition and the Will : Individual Volition and Social Context.
Ross, Don.
Distributed Cognition and the Will : Individual Volition and Social Context. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (380 pages) - A Bradford Book Series . - A Bradford Book Series .
Intro -- 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.
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.
9780262282635
Will.
Act (Philosophy).
Distributed cognition.
Electronic books.
BJ1461.D57 2007
128/.3
Distributed Cognition and the Will : Individual Volition and Social Context. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (380 pages) - A Bradford Book Series . - A Bradford Book Series .
Intro -- 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.
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.
9780262282635
Will.
Act (Philosophy).
Distributed cognition.
Electronic books.
BJ1461.D57 2007
128/.3