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This volume is aimed at readers who wish to move beyond debates about the existence of free will and the efficacy of consciousness and closer to appreciating how free will and consciousness might operate. It draws from philosophy and psychology, the two fields that have grappled most fundamentally with these issues. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors explore such issues as how free will is connected to rational choice, planning, and self-control; roles for consciousness in decision making; the nature and power of conscious deciding; connections among free will, consciousness, and quantum mechanics; why free will and consciousness might have evolved; how consciousness develops in individuals; the experience of free will; effects on behavior of the belief that free will is an illusion; and connections between free will and moral responsibility in lay thinking. Collectively, these state-of-the-art chapters by accomplished psychologists and philosophers provide a glimpse into the future of research on free will and consciousness.

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Shows how principles of Common Sense philosophy are involved in volition, action and the ability to judge morally, giving an original twist to a libertarian and realist tradition that was prominently represented in eighteenth-century British thought .

Act (Philosophy) --- Free will and determinism --- Action (Philosophy) --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Philosophy

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Cosmology --- Free will and determinism --- Individualism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- History --- Nicholas,

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Will is understood as the ability of an agent to reflect on and define aims freely, and to act upon and pursue them methodically and steadfastly. For the first time this volume examines in detail the historical development of the terminology and problems within the various philosophical schools (Stoics, Neo-Platonists, Peripatetics), as well as in Christian patristics, which led to the establishment of a philosophically "adequate" definition of will in Late Antiquity.

Free will and determinism --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Stoics --- Peripatetics --- Neoplatonism --- Christian philosophy --- History --- Römisches Reich. --- Griechenland. --- Greek Literature. --- Philosophy/Late Antiquity.

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This work presents an argument that the problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events.

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