Are We Free? (Record no. 12400)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780195189636
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 123.5
Item number B145A
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Personal name Baer, J.
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Language of a work English
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Title Are We Free?
Remainder of title : Psychology and Free Will
Statement of responsibility, etc. / edited by J. Baer and others.
Medium [Electronic Resource]
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. : Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008
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Summary, etc. Do people have free will, or is universal belief an illusion? If free will is more than an illusion, what kind of free will do people have? How can free will influence behavior? Can free will be studied, verified, and understood scientifically? These are a few of the questions this book attempts to answer. People generally act as though they believe in their own free will: they don't feel like automatons, and they don't treat one another as they might treat robots. While acknowledging many constraints and influences on behavior, people nonetheless act as if they (and their neighbors) are largely in control of many if not most of the decisions they make. Belief in free will also underpins the sense that people are responsible for their actions. Psychological explanations of behavior rarely mention free will as a factor, however. Can psychological science find room for free will? How do leading psychologists conceptualize free will, and what role do they believe free will plays in shaping behavior? This book looks both at recent experimental and theoretical work directly related to free will and at the ways leading psychologists from all branches of psychology deal with the philosophical problems long associated with the question of free will, such as the relationship between determinism and free will and the importance of consciousness in free will. It also includes commentaries by leading philosophers on what psychologists can contribute to long-running philosophical struggles with this most distinctly human belief.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Determinism
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Free Will
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social Psychology
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Personal name Baumeister, R.
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Personal name Kaufman, J.
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189636.001.0001">http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189636.001.0001</a>
Electronic format type PDF
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Koha item type e-Book
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      e-Book For Access   Textbook S. R. Ranganathan Learning Hub S. R. Ranganathan Learning Hub Online 2022-09-20 Infokart India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi 170.06   123.5 B145A EB0540 2022-09-20 2022-09-20 e-Book Platform : Oxford Academic