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Distributed Cognition and the Will : Individual Volition and Social Context.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Bradford Book SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (380 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262282635
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Distributed Cognition and the WillDDC classification:
  • 128/.3
LOC classification:
  • BJ1461.D57 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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