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The Timing of Sensations: Reply to Libet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Patricia Smith Churchland
Patricia Smith Churchland*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Manitoba
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , September 1981 , pp. 492 - 497
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Copyright © 1981 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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I am especially indebted to Larry Jordan of the Physiology Department for help and advice.

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