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Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work?

Roy F. Baumeister, Alfred R. Mele, and Kathleen D. Vohs

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780195389760

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389760.001.0001

Conscious Deciding and the Science of Free Will

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(p. 43 ) 4 Conscious Deciding and the Science of Free Will
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Free Will and Consciousness
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Alfred R. Mele (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195389760.003.0004

This chapter develops an experimentally useful conception of conscious deciding and challenges one major source of skepticism about free will: the belief that conscious decisions and intentions are never involved in producing corresponding overt actions. The challenge illuminates a way in which some conscious decisions and intentions do seem to be efficacious.

Keywords:   action, consciousness, decision, free will, intention

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