Agency and Self-awareness: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology
- ISBN-10
- 0199245622
- ISBN-13
- 9780199245628
- Category
- Act (Philosophy)
- Pages
- 415
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Johannes Roessler, Naomi Eilan
Description
There has been much psychological and neurological work purporting to show that consciousness and self-awareness play no role in causing actions. The essays in this volume subject the assumptions that motivate such claims to sustained interdisciplinary scrutiny.
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