Voluntary Action

• Voluntary action: brains, minds, and sociality ; SECTION I: BETWEEN MOTIVATION AND CONTROL: PSYCHOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 1. How do we know about our own actions? ; 2. Acquisition and control of voluntary action ; 3. Voluntary action and cognitive control from a cognitive neuroscience perspective ; 4. Voluntary action from the perspective of social-personality psychology ; SECTION II: BETWEEN CORTEX AND THE BASAL GANGLIA: NEUROSCIENTIFIC ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 5. The interaction of cortex and basal ganglia in the control of voluntary actions ; 6. How do we control action? ; 7. Self-generated actions ; SECTION III: BETWEEN EPIPHENOMENALISM AND RATIONALITY: PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 8. Mental causation: the supervenience argument and the proportionality constraint ; 9. The explanatory role of consciousness in action ; 10. How voluntary are minimal actions ; 11. Rational and irrational intentions: an argument for externalism ; SECTION IV: BETWEEN THE NORMATIVE AND THE SYMBOLIC: JURIDICIAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ACCOUNTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION ; 12. First-person understanding of action in criminal law ; 13. Voluntary action and criminal responsibility ; 14. Culture and human development in a theory of action beliefs ; SECTION V: QUESTIONING THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD ; 15. A polytheistic conception of the sciences and the virtues of deep variety ; 16. A view from elsewhere: the emergence of consciousness in multidisciplinary discourse

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