Author(s): Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Lynn Nadel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 278
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
1. Do We Have Free Will?......Page 18
2. Why Libet’s Studies Don’t Pose a Threat to Free Will......Page 28
3. Libet on Free Will: Readiness Potentials, Decisions, and Awareness......Page 40
4. Are Voluntary Movements Initiated Preconsciously? The Relationships between Readiness Potentials, Urges, and Decisions......Page 51
5. Do We Really Know What We Are Doing? Implications of Reported Time of Decision for Theories of Volition......Page 64
6. Volition: How Physiology Speaks to the Issue of Responsibility......Page 78
7. What Are Intentions?......Page 87
8. Beyond Libet: Long-term Prediction of Free Choices from Neuroimaging Signals......Page 102
9. Forward Modeling Mediates Motor Awareness......Page 114
10. Volition and the Function of Consciousness......Page 126
11. Neuroscience, Free Will, and Responsibility......Page 141
12. Bending Time to One’s Will......Page 151
13. Prospective Codes Fulfilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will......Page 163
14. The Phenomenology of Agency and the Libet Results......Page 176
15. The Threat of Shrinking Agency and Free Will Disillusionism......Page 190
16. Libet and the Criminal Law’s Voluntary Act Requirement......Page 206
17. Criminal and Moral Responsibility and the Libet Experiments......Page 221
18. Libet’s Challenge(s) to Responsible Agency......Page 224
19. Lessons from Libet......Page 252
B......Page 264
F......Page 265
J......Page 266
M......Page 267
R......Page 268
T......Page 269
Z......Page 270
B......Page 272
D......Page 273
I......Page 274
M......Page 275
R......Page 276
U......Page 277
W......Page 278
