Agency and Self-Awareness
August 27, 1992 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199245611.001.0001 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Edited volume of essays |
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| Key points | The volume's essays argue that recent psychological and neurological claims denying consciousness a causal role in action, and declaring free will an illusion, rest on assumptions that warrant sustained interdisciplinary scrutiny. The abstract presents the collection as challenging those assumptions rather than endorsing the skeptical conclusions. |
Abstract
Abstract In recent years there has been much psychological and neurological work purporting to show that consciousness and self-awareness play no role in causing actions, and indeed to demonstrate that free will is an illusion. The essays in this volume subject the assumptions that motivate such claims to sustained interdisciplinary scrutiny. The book will be compulsory reading for psychologists and philosophers working on action explanation, and for anyone interested in the relation between the brain sciences and consciousness.