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Author Murphy, Nancey C.

Title Did my neurons make me do it? : philosophical and neurobiological perspectives on moral responsibility and free will / Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  128 M955d 2007    ---  Available
Description xviii, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-321) and index.
Contents Introduction: New approaches to knotty old problems -- Avoiding Cartesian materialism -- From causal reductionism to self-directed systems -- From mindless to intelligent action -- How can neural nets mean? -- How does reason get its grip on the brain? -- Who's responsible? -- Neurobiological reductionism and free will.
Subject Ethics.
Reasoning.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Added Author Brown, Warren S., 1944-
ISBN 0199215391 (alk. paper)
9780199215393 (alk. paper)

 
    
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