Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This title revisits the traditional explanation of freedom of will. O'Connor defines it as reason-guided agent causation and places his argument within a general metaphysics.

Philosophical anthropology --- General ethics --- Determinism (Philosophy). --- Free will and determinism. --- Free will and determinism --- Compatibilism --- Determinism and free will --- Determinism and indeterminism --- Free agency --- Freedom and determinism --- Freedom of the will --- Indeterminism --- Liberty of the will --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Contingency (Philosophy) --- Modality (Logic) --- Theism

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Act (Philosophy). --- Action theory. --- Action (Philosophie) --- History of philosophy --- Act (Philosophy) --- Action (Philosophy) --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Philosophy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

How is free will possible in the light of the physical and chemical underpinnings of brain activity and recent neurobiological experiments? How can the emergence of complexity in hierarchical systems such as the brain, based at the lower levels in physical interactions, lead to something like genuine free will? The nature of our understanding of free will in the light of present-day neuroscience is becoming increasingly important because of remarkable discoveries on the topic being made by neuroscientists at the present time, on the one hand, and its crucial importance for the way we view ourselves as human beings, on the other. A key tool in understanding how free will may arise in this context is the idea of downward causation in complex systems, happening coterminously with bottom up causation, to form an integral whole. Top-down causation is usually neglected, and is therefore emphasized in the other part of the book’s title. The concept is explored in depth, as are the ethical and legal implications of our understanding of free will. This book arises out of a workshop held in California in April of 2007, which was chaired by Dr. Christof Koch. It was unusual in terms of the breadth of people involved: they included physicists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, philosophers, and theologians. This enabled the meeting, and hence the resulting book, to attain a rather broader perspective on the issue than is often attained at academic symposia. The book includes contributions by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, George F. R. Ellis , Christopher D. Frith, Mark Hallett, David Hodgson, Owen D. Jones, Alicia Juarrero, J. A. Scott Kelso, Christof Koch, Hans Küng, Hakwan C. Lau, Dean Mobbs, Nancey Murphy, William Newsome, Timothy O’Connor, Sean A.. Spence, and Evan Thompson.

Consciousness. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Free will and determinism. --- Consciousness --- Neurobiology --- Brain --- Personal Autonomy --- Biology --- Principle-Based Ethics --- Psychophysiology --- Freedom --- Cognition --- Central Nervous System --- Neurosciences --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Ethics --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Human Rights --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Mental Processes --- Nervous System --- Humanities --- Social Control, Formal --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Anatomy --- Philosophy --- Sociology --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Health Care --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Atomic Physics --- Psychology --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Compatibilism --- Determinism and free will --- Determinism and indeterminism --- Free agency --- Freedom and determinism --- Freedom of the will --- Indeterminism --- Liberty of the will --- Physics. --- Neurosciences. --- Dynamics. --- Ergodic theory. --- Statistical physics. --- Dynamical systems. --- Medical laws and legislation. --- Vibration. --- Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity. --- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control. --- Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory. --- Medical Law. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Spirit --- Self --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- Differentiable dynamical systems. --- Public health laws. --- Complex Systems. --- Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems. --- Mathematical statistics --- Communicable diseases --- Public health --- Medical laws and legislation --- Differential dynamical systems --- Dynamical systems, Differentiable --- Dynamics, Differentiable --- Differential equations --- Global analysis (Mathematics) --- Topological dynamics --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Cycles --- Mechanics --- Sound --- Statistical methods --- Law and legislation --- Law, Medical --- Medical personnel --- Medical registration and examination --- Medicine --- Physicians --- Surgeons --- Medical policy --- Medical jurisprudence --- Ergodic transformations --- Continuous groups --- Mathematical physics --- Measure theory --- Transformations (Mathematics) --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Statics --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Free will and determinism --- Causation