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The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel M. Wegner is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Illusion of Conscious Will about?
1 online resource (xi, 405 pages) : A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain. Yet if psychological and neural mechanisms are responsible for all human behavior, how could we have conscious will? The feeling of conscious will, Wegner shows, helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, Wegner examines the issue from a variety of angles. He looks at illusions of the will--those cases where people feel that they are willing an act that they
Who reads The Illusion of Conscious Will?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Daniel M. Wegner
- Publisher
- A Bradford Book
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262731621
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Psychology, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (453 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14