Clark A., Kiverstein J., Vierkant T. (eds.) Decomposing the Will

Oxford University Press, 2013. — 356 p. — ISBN 978-0199746996.Decomposing the Will is a collection of 17 papers that examine recent developments in cognitive sciences in relation to claims about conscious agency (or lack thereof) and the implications of these findings for the free will debate (проблема свободы воли с нейробиологических и философских позиций). The overarching theme of the volume is exploring conscious will as "decomposed" into interrelated functions. The volume has four sections. Part 1 surveys scientific research that has been taken by many to support what the editors refer to as "the zombie challenge". The zombie challenge stems from claims about the limited role of consciousness in ordinary behavior. If conscious control is required for free will, this recent scientific research, which challenges conscious efficacy, also undermines free will. In part 2, authors explore various layers of the sense of agency. Part 3 investigates how to use both phenomenology and science to address the zombie challenge and discusses a variety of possible functions for conscious control. Part 4 offers decomposed accounts of the will.Contributors
Decomposing the Will: Meeting the Zombie Challenge / Tillmann Vierkant, Julian Kiverstein, and Andy Clark
The Zombie Challenge
The Neuroscience of Volition / Adina L. Roskies
Beyond Libet: Long-Term Prediction of Free Choices from Neuroimaging Signals / John-Dylan Haynes
Vetoing and Consciousness / Alfred R. Mele
From Determinism to Resignation; and How to Stop It / Richard Holton
The Sense of Agency
From the Fact to the Sense of Agency / Manos Tsakiris and Aikaterini Fotopoulou
Ambiguity in the Sense of Agency / Shaun Gallagher
There’s Nothing Like Being Free: Default Dispositions, Judgments of Freedom, and the Phenomenology of Coercion / Fabio Paglieri
Agency as a Marker of Consciousness / Tim Bayne
The Function of Conscious Control: Conflict Resolution, Emotion, and Mental Actions
Voluntary Action and the Three Forms of Binding in the Brain / Ezequiel Morsella, Tara C. Dennehy, and John A. Bargh
Emotion Regulation and Free Will / Nico H. Frijda
Action Control by Implementation Intentions: The Role of Discrete Emotions / Sam J. Maglio, Peter M. Gollwitzer, and Gabriele Oettingen
Mental Action and the Threat of Automaticity / Wayne Wu
Mental Acts as Natural Kinds / Joëlle Proust
Decomposed Accounts of the Will
Managerial Control and Free Mental Agency / Tillmann Vierkant
Recomposing the Will: Distributed Motivation and Computer-Mediated Extrospection / Lars Hall, Petter Johansson, and David de Léon
Situationism and Moral Responsibility: Free Will in Fragments / Manuel Vargas
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