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Experimental psychology cannot solve the problem of conscious will (yet we must try)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Joachim I. Krueger
Joachim I. Krueger*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Psychology/faculty/krueger.html
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Abstract:

According to the view that humans are conscious automata, the experience of conscious will is illusory. Epistemic theories of causation, however, make room for causal will, planned behavior, and moral action.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 668 - 669
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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