Velmans, Max. 2002. How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains? Exeter: Imprint Academic. ISBN 9780907845393 [Book]

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(From the publisher) In daily life we take it for granted that our minds have conscious control of our actions, at least for most of the time. But many scientists and philosophers deny that this is really the case, because there is no generally accepted theory of how the mind interacts with the body. Max Velmans presents a non-reductive solution to the problem, in which 'conscious mental control' includes ‘voluntary’ operations of the preconscious mind. On this account, biological determinism is compatible with experienced free will. Velmans’ theory is put to the test by nine critics: Ron Chrisley, Todd Feinberg, Jeffrey Gray, John Kihlstrom, Sam Rakover, Ramakrishna Rao, Aaron Sloman, Steve Torrance and Robert Van Gulick.

Item Type:	Book
Additional Information:	Also published as Special Issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies 9 [11], 2002.
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Date:	18 December 2002
Item ID:	26051
Date Deposited:	15 Mar 2019 11:58
Last Modified:	15 Mar 2019 11:58
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/26051

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