Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will

Name: Effective Intentions: The Power of Conscious Will
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199764686
Price: 2823.00 INR
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by Alfred Mele

Oxford University Press · 2010

Alfred Mele's book on free will and conscious intention takes up scientific claims that the brain decides before we are aware, and that intentions play no causal role. Aimed at philosophers and readers of consciousness research.

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Effective Intentions takes up a set of claims that researchers have put forward in the scientific debate about free will and consciousness. Among them are the ideas that the brain decides what we will do before we become aware of the decision, that conscious will has only a narrow window in which to act, and that intentions play no role in producing action.

Alfred Mele examines these claims and asks what they mean for the power of conscious will. The subtitle, The Power of Conscious Will, signals the book's central question.

Philosophers of mind and action, and readers who follow the debate on free will and neuroscience, are the most likely audience.

Edition note: published by Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 9780199764686.