Causality, Mind, and Free Will
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Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience
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Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience
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Contents
Acknowledgements
The Authors
Introduction
Part 1: Intention and Consciousness
1 Perceptual Decision-Making and Beyond: Intention as Mental Imagery
2 Dual-System Theory and the Role of Consciousness in Intentional Action
3 When Do Robots have Free Will? Exploring the Relationships between (Attributions of) Consciousness and Free Will
Part 2: Libet-Style Experiments
4 Free Will and Neuroscience: Decision Times and the Point of No Return
5 Why Libet-Style Experiments Cannot Refute All Forms of Libertarianism
6 Actions and Intentions
Part 3: Causality and Free Will
7 The Mental, the Physical and the Informational
8 Free Will, Language, and the Causal Exclusion Problem
Index of Authors
Index of Concepts
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