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9 - Assessment and modification of free will via scientific techniques: two challenges

from Part III - Mental capacities and disorders of the will

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

Walter Glannon
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University of Calgary
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Free Will and the Brain
Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives
, pp. 168 - 188
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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