Can Conscious Agency Be Saved?
This paper is concerned with the role of conscious agency in human action. On a folk-psychological view of the structure of agency, intentions, conceived as conscious mental states, are the causes of actions. In the last decades, the development of new psychological and neuroscientific methods has m...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 33 - 46 |
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