- Title Pages
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Do We Have Free Will? -
Chapter 2 Why Libet’s Studies Don’t Pose a Threat to Free Will -
Chapter 3 Libet on Free Will: Readiness Potentials, Decisions, and Awareness -
Chapter 4 Are Voluntary Movements Initiated Preconsciously? The Relationships between Readiness Potentials, Urges, and Decisions -
Chapter 5 Do We Really Know What We Are Doing? Implications of Reported Time of Decision for Theories of Volition -
Chapter 6 Volition: How Physiology Speaks to the Issue of Responsibility -
Chapter 7 What Are Intentions? -
Chapter 8 Beyond Libet: Long-term Prediction of Free Choices from Neuroimaging Signals -
Chapter 9 Forward Modeling Mediates Motor Awareness -
Chapter 10 Volition and the Function of Consciousness -
Chapter 11 Neuroscience, Free Will, and Responsibility -
Chapter 12 Bending Time to One’s Will -
Chapter 13 Prospective Codes Fulfilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will -
Chapter 14 The Phenomenology of Agency and the Libet Results -
Chapter 15 The Threat of Shrinking Agency and Free Will Disillusionism -
Chapter 16 Libet and the Criminal Law’s Voluntary Act Requirement -
Chapter 17 Criminal and Moral Responsibility and the Libet Experiments -
Chapter 18 Libet’s Challenge(s) to Responsible Agency -
Chapter 19 Lessons from Libet - Author index
- Subject Index
Bending Time to One’s Will
Bending Time to One’s Will
- Chapter:
- (p.134) Chapter 12 Bending Time to One’s Will
- Source:
- Conscious Will and Responsibility
- Author(s):
Jeffrey P. Ebert
Daniel M. Wegner
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Building on the research of Libet and others, this chapter shows that conscious will, and authorship more generally, is less a cause of events than an experience one has when the mind determines an event should be ascribed to the self—and that time plays a key role in such determinations. It then shows that this experience of authorship involves a subjective bending of time, such that actions and events are perceived to be temporally closer to each other when authorship is inferred.
Keywords: authorship, conscious will, mind, bending time
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Do We Have Free Will? -
Chapter 2 Why Libet’s Studies Don’t Pose a Threat to Free Will -
Chapter 3 Libet on Free Will: Readiness Potentials, Decisions, and Awareness -
Chapter 4 Are Voluntary Movements Initiated Preconsciously? The Relationships between Readiness Potentials, Urges, and Decisions -
Chapter 5 Do We Really Know What We Are Doing? Implications of Reported Time of Decision for Theories of Volition -
Chapter 6 Volition: How Physiology Speaks to the Issue of Responsibility -
Chapter 7 What Are Intentions? -
Chapter 8 Beyond Libet: Long-term Prediction of Free Choices from Neuroimaging Signals -
Chapter 9 Forward Modeling Mediates Motor Awareness -
Chapter 10 Volition and the Function of Consciousness -
Chapter 11 Neuroscience, Free Will, and Responsibility -
Chapter 12 Bending Time to One’s Will -
Chapter 13 Prospective Codes Fulfilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will -
Chapter 14 The Phenomenology of Agency and the Libet Results -
Chapter 15 The Threat of Shrinking Agency and Free Will Disillusionism -
Chapter 16 Libet and the Criminal Law’s Voluntary Act Requirement -
Chapter 17 Criminal and Moral Responsibility and the Libet Experiments -
Chapter 18 Libet’s Challenge(s) to Responsible Agency -
Chapter 19 Lessons from Libet - Author index
- Subject Index
