Who's in Charge?

by Gazzaniga, Michael S.

• ISBN13: 9780061906114
• ISBN10: 0061906115
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-11
• Publisher: Ecco Pr

Summary

There is no "you" consciously making decisions. So how do we make decisions? How can we have free will if we don't pull the levers on our own behavior? What moral and legal implications follow if we don't have free will? Who's in Charge?is a primer for a new era in the understanding of human behavior that ranges across neuroscience, psychology, ethics, and the law with a light touch but profound implications.

Author Biography

Michael S. Gazzaniga is the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the president of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, the founding director of the MacArthur Foundation's Law and Neuroscience Project, and a member of the American Academy of Arts Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. He lives in California.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Way We Are	p. 7
The Parallel and Distributed Brain	p. 43
The Interpreter	p. 75
Abandoning the Concept of Free Will	p. 105
The Social Mind	p. 143
We Are the Law	p. 179
An Afterword	p. 217
Acknowledgments	p. 221
Notes	p. 223
Index	p. 243
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