01496nam a2200325 a 4500 EDZ0000077105 StDuBDS 20150804193944.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 101209s2010 nyu fo 011 0 eng d 9780199864911 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS BF611 153.8 22 Conscious will and responsibility [electronic resource] : a tribute to Benjamin Libet / edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Lynn Nadel. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. 1 online resource. We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them. This commonsense view is thrown into dispute by Benjamin Libet's experiments, which suggest that conscious will occurs not before but after the start of brain activity that produces physical action. This book explores this theory and more. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Dec. 17, 2010). Will. Responsibility. Consciousness. Libet, Benjamin, 1916-2007. Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, 1955- Nadel, Lynn. Print version 9780195381641 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195381641.001.0001 38278 38278