Science tries to understand human action from two perspectives, the cognitive and the volitional. The volitional approach, in contrast to the more dominant "outside-in" studies of cognition, looks at actions from the inside out, examining how actions are formed and informed by internal conditions. In Disorders of Volition, scholars from a range of disciplines seek to advance our understanding of the processes supporting voluntary action by addressing conditions in which the will is impaired. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists examine the will and its pathologies from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, offering a conceptual overview and discussing specific neurological and psychiatric conditions as disorders of volition. After presenting different conceptual frameworks that identify agency, decision making, and goal pursuit as central components of volition, the book examines how impairments in these and other aspects of volition manifest themselves in schizophrenia, depression, prefrontal lobe damage, and substance abuse. Contributors: George Ainslie, Tim Bayne, Antoine Bechara, Paul W. Burgess, Anna-Lisa Cohen, Daniel Dennett, Stéphanie Dubal, Philippe Fossati, Chris Frith, Sam J. Gilbert, Peter Gollwitzer, Jordan Grafman, Patrick Haggard, Jay G. Hull, Marc Jeannerod, Roland Jouvent, Frank Krueger, Neil Levy, Peter F. Liddle, Kristen L. Mackiewitz, Thomas Metzinger, Jack B. Nitschke, Jiro Okuda, Adrian M. Owen, Chris Parry, Wolfgang Prinz, Joëlle Proust, Michael A. Sayette, Werner X. Schneider, Natalie Sebanz, Jon S. Simons, Laurie B. Slone, Sean A. Spence

Toward a Science of Volition

1

(17)

Wolfgang Prinz

Daniel Dennett

Natalie Sebanz

I. Conceptual Foundations

17

(156)

Conscious Volition and Mental Representation: Toward a More Fine-Grained Analysis

19

(30)

Thomas Metzinger

The Feeling of Doing: Deconstructing the Phenomenology of Agency

49

(20)

Tim Bayne

Neil Levy

Conscious Intention and the Sense of Agency

69

(18)

Patrick Haggard

Agency in Schizophrenia from a Control Theory Viewpoint

87

(32)

Joelle Proust

A Selectionist Model of the Ego: Implications for Self-Control

119

(32)

George Ainslie

If-Then Plans and the Intentional Control of Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions

151

(22)

Anna-Lisa Cohen

Peter Gollwitzer

II. Disorders of Volition in Schizophrenia

173

(76)

From Volition to Agency: The Mechanism of Action Recognition and Its Failures

175

(18)

Marc Jeannerod

Motivated Attention and Schizophrenia

193

(14)

Peter F. Liddle

Schizophrenic Avolition: Implications from Functional and Structural Neuroimaging

207

(26)

Sean A. Spence

Chris Parry

Interpersonal Factors in the Disorders of Volition Associated with Schizophrenia

233

(16)

Chris Frith

III. Disorders of Volition in Depression

249

(78)

Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Contributions to Volition in Depression

251

(24)

Jack B. Nitschke

Kristen L. Mackiewicz

Action Control and Its Failure in Clinical Depression: A Neurocognitive Theory

275

(32)

Werner X. Schneider

The Cost of Pleasure: Effort and Cognition in Anhedonia and Depression

307

(20)

Roland Jouvent

Stephanie Dubal

Philippe Fossati

IV. Disorders of Volition in Patients with Prefrontal Lobe Damage

327

(70)

The Human Ventrolateral Frontal Cortex and Intended Action

329

(18)

Adrian M. Owen

Volition and the Human Prefrontal Cortex

347

(26)

Jordan Grafman

Frank Krueger

Rostral Prefrontal Brain Regions (Area 10): A Gateway between Inner Thought and the External World?

373

(324)

Paul W. Burgess

Sam J. Gilbert

Jiro Okuda

Jon S. Simons

V. Disorders of Volition in Substance Abuse

397

(60)

Broken Willpower: Impaired Mechanisms of Decision Making and Impulse Control in Substance Abusers

399

(20)

Antoine Bechara

Craving, Cognition, and the Self-Regulation of Cigarette Smoking

419

(20)

Michael A. Sayette

A Dynamic Model of the Will with an Application to Alcohol-Intoxicated Behavior

439

(18)

Jay G. Hull

Laurie B. Slone

List of Contributors

457

(2)

Author Index

459

(26)

Subject Index

485

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