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Title Distributed cognition and the will [electronic resource] : individual volition and social context / edited by Don Ross ... [et al.].

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

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Description ix, 369 p. : ill.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Don Ross -- The puzzle of coaction / Daniel M. Wegner and Betsy Sparrow -- What kind of agent are we? : a naturalistic framework for the study of human agency / Paul Sheldon Davies -- The illusion of freedom evolves / Tamler Sommers -- Neuroscience and agent-control / Philip Pettit -- My body has a mind of its own / Daniel C. Dennett -- Soft selves and ecological control / Andy Clark -- The sources of behavior : towards a naturalistic, control account of agency / Mariam Thalos -- Thought experiments that explore where controlled experiments can't : the example of will / George Ainslie -- The economic and evolutionary basis of selves / Don Ross -- Situated cognition : the perspect model / Lawrence Lengbeyer -- The evolutionary origins of volition / Wayne Christensen -- What determines the self in self-regulation? applied psychology's struggle with will / Jeffrey B. Vancouver and Tadeusz W. Zawidzki -- Civil schizophrenia / Dan Lloyd.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Will.
Act (Philosophy)
Distributed cognition.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ross, Don, 1962-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780262182614 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262182610 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262681698 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262681692 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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