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. Ed(S): Murphy, Nancey; Ellis, George F. R.; O'Connor, Timothy - Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will - 9783642260445 - V9783642260445
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Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will

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Description for Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will Paperback. With an all star cast on an extremely hot topic, this book provides an important contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of free will. Top-down causation is explored, as are the ethical and legal implications of our understanding of free will. Editor(s): Murphy, Nancey; Ellis, George F. R.; O'Connor, Timothy. Series: Understanding Complex Systems. Num Pages: 299 pages, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: LNTM; PBWR; PHS; PSAN; TGMD4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.

How is free will possible in the light of the physical and chemical underpinnings of brain activity and recent neurobiological experiments? How can the emergence of complexity in hierarchical systems such as the brain, based at the lower levels in physical interactions, lead to something like genuine free will? The nature of our understanding of free will in the light of present-day neuroscience is becoming increasingly important because of remarkable discoveries on the topic being made by neuroscientists at the present time, on the one hand, and its crucial importance for the way we view ourselves as human beings, on ... Read more

This book arises out of a workshop held in California in April of 2007, which was chaired by Dr. Christof Koch. It was unusual in terms of the breadth of people involved: they included physicists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, philosophers, and theologians. This enabled the meeting, and hence the resulting book, to attain a rather broader perspective on the issue than is often attained at academic symposia. The book includes contributions by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, George F. R. Ellis , Christopher D. Frith, Mark Hallett, David Hodgson, Owen D. Jones, Alicia Juarrero, J. A. Scott Kelso, Christof Koch, Hans Küng, Hakwan C. Lau, Dean Mobbs, Nancey Murphy, William Newsome, Timothy O’Connor, Sean A.. Spence, and Evan Thompson.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
Series
Understanding Complex Systems
Number of Pages
291
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642260445
SKU
V9783642260445
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