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Contents
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Editors: Introduction
Neuroscience
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David Ingvar: On volition: a neurophysiologically oriented essay
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Sean A. Spence and Chris D. Frith: Towards a functional anatomy
of volition
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Wolfram Schultz: The primate basal ganglia and the voluntary control
of behaviour
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Benjamin Libet: Do we have free will?
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Gilberto Gomes: Volition and the readiness potential
Psychology and Psychiatry
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Jonathan Bricklin: A variety of religious experience: William James
and the non-reality of free will
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Guy Claxton: Whodunnit? Unpicking the ‘seems’ of free will
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Jeffrey Schwartz: A role for volition and attention in the generation
of new brain circuitry: Towards a neurobiology of mental force
Physics
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Henry P. Stapp: Attention, intention and will in quantum physics
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Ulrich Mohrhoff: The physics of interactionism
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David Wilson: Mind–brain interaction and violation of physical laws
Philosophy
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David Hodgson: Hume's mistake
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Jonathan Lowe: Self, agency and mental causation
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John McCrone: A bifold model of free will
Comment
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Jaron Lanier: And Now a Brief Word from Now
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Whit Blauvelt: Y's Domain
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Anthony Freeman: Decisive Action: Personal responsibility all the
way down
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Thomas W. Clark: Fear of Mechanism: A compatibalist critique of
‘The Volitional Brain’
Advance Praise
for The Volitional Brain
"A rich collection of interesting speculation and fascinating scientific
information about the problem of free will by neuroscientists, psychologists,
physicists and philosophers. Among the topics provocatively discussed are
Libet's groundbreaking experiments and other recent research on the neurophysiology
of volition; quantum physics, indeterminism and consciousness; mind/brain
interaction and mental causation; the neuroscience of obsessive-compulsive
disorders and other abnormalities of will and action, and much more. Stimulating
reading from beginning to end. " Robert Kane, Professor of Philosophy,
The University of Texas at Austin and author, The Significance of Free
Will (OUP: 1996)
"Free will is, along with the nature of consciousness itself, still
very controversial. A host of approaches are being pursued to attempt to
understand it. Any new book, gathering the most recent ideas of thinkers
in the area, is welcome; this book is especially so for the clarity of
its articles. By chance I read the book the morning after the recent strong
claims that chimpanzees can talk to us, and it added further urgency to
getting free will right, not only for ourselves but also for our near-human
relatives in the animal kingdom. While this book does not do that, it gives
an excellent and even-handed review of what is at stake, as well as where
science itself has got to in this quest. " John G. Taylor, Director
(Emeritus), Centre for Neural Networks, King's College London, Author:
The Race for Consciousness (1999: MIT Press)
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