Consciousness, Free Will, and the Sciences of the Mind

doi:10.3868/s030-007-018-0030-6

Front. Philos. China

2018, Vol. 13

Issue (3) : 394-401 https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-007-018-0030-6

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Consciousness, Free Will, and the Sciences of the Mind

Timothy O’Connor(

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Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

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Abstract

In his review of the trio of philosopher-scientist dialogues on the nature and capacities of the human mind, Paul Thagard (2018) advocates clearly and forcefully for a fairly extreme position, which he advances as preferable to an equally extreme alternative. I will suggest a middle path that becomes attractive when one attends not just to the range of data now pouring forth from the sciences of mind but also to our own experience as minded individuals.

Keywords consciousness free will emergence qualia dualism cognitive science first-person perspective

Issue Date: 25 September 2018

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Timothy O’Connor. Consciousness, Free Will, and the Sciences of the Mind[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2018, 13(3): 394-401.

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