The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation

by Peter Ulric Tse

A neuroscientific perspective on the mind-body problem that focuses on how the brain actually accomplishes mental causation.

The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective. In contrast with philosophers who use logic rather than data to argue whether mental causation or consciousness can exist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262528312
• ISBN13: 9780262528313
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher