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Contributors | p. vi |
Editors' Introduction | p. ix |
Neuroscience | |
On Volition: a neurophysiologically oriented essay | p. 1 |
Towards a Functional Anatomy of Volition | p. 11 |
The Primate Basal Ganglia and the Voluntary Control of Behaviour | p. 31 |
Do We Have Free Will? | p. 47 |
Volition and the Readiness Potential | p. 59 |
Psychology and Psychiatry | |
A Variety of Religious Experience: William James and the non-reality of free will | p. 77 |
Whodunnit? Unpicking the 'seems' of free will | p. 99 |
A Role for Volition and Attention in the Generation of New Brain Circuitry: Towards a neurobiology of mental force | p. 115 |
Physics | |
Attention, Intention and Will in Quantum Physics | p. 143 |
The Physics of Interactionism | p. 165 |
Mind-brain Interaction and Violation of Physical Laws | p. 185 |
Philosophy | |
Hume's Mistake | p. 201 |
Self, Agency and Mental Causation | p. 225 |
A Bifold Model of Free Will | p. 241 |
Comment | |
And Now a Brief Word from Now: Logical dependencies between vernacular concepts of free will, time and consciousness | p. 261 |
Y's Domain | p. 269 |
Decisive Action: Personal responsibility all the way down | p. 275 |
Fear of Mechanism: A compatibilist critique of 'The Volitional Brain' | p. 279 |
Index | p. 294 |
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