Agency and Self-Awareness: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology

by Johannes Roessler, Naomi Eilan

Overview

In recent years there has been much psychological and neurological work purporting to show that consciousness and self-awareness play no role in causing actions, and indeed to demonstrate that free will is an illusion. The essays in this volume subject the assumptions that motivate such claims to sustained interdisciplinary scrutiny. The book will be compulsory reading for psychologists and philosophers working on action explanation, and for anyone interested in the relation between the brain sciences and consciousness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199245628
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/04/2003
Series:	Consciousness & Self-Consciousness Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

University of Warwick

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Naomi Eilan and Johannes Roessler2. The Sense of Agency: Awareness and Ownership of Action, Antony Marcel3. Action: Awareness, Ownership, and Knowledge, Christopher Peacocke4. Conscious Awareness of Intention and of Action, Patrick Haggard5. Consciousness of Action and Self-Consciousness: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach, Marc Jeannerod6. The Role of Demonstratives in Action-Explanation, John Campbell7. Experimental Approaches to Action, Wolfgang Prinz8. Perception and Agency, Thomas Baldwin9. Fractionating and the Intentional Control of Behaviour: A Neuropsychological Analysis, Glyn W. Humphreys and M. Jane Riddoch10. Dual Control and the Causal Theory of Action: The Case of Non-intentional Action, Josef Perner11. The Development of Young Children's Action Control and Awareness, Douglas Frye and Philip David Zelazo12. Children's Action Control and Awareness: Comment on Frye and Zelazo, Jennifer Hornsby13. The Development of Self-Consciousness, Michael Lewis14. Perceiving Intentions, Joelle Proust15. The Sense of Ownership: An Analogy between Sensation and Action, Jerome Dokic16. The Epistemology of Physical Action, Brian O'Shaughnessy17. On Knowing One's Own Actions, Lucy O'Brien18. Intentional Action and Self-Awareness, Johannes RoesslerIndex