Calling in the cartesian loans

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (5):661-661 (2004)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Wegner's tactic of describing the conscious mind as if it inhabited a Cartesian Theater in the brain is a stopgap solution that needs to be redeemed by paying off these loans of comprehension. Just how does Wegner propose to recast his points?

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1017/s0140525x04240158

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,369

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Why conscious free will both is and isn't an illusion.Max Velmans - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (5):677.
The Cartesian Theater stance.Bruce Glymour, Rick Grush, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Brian Keeley, Joe Ramsey, Oron Shagrir & Ellen Watson - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (2):209-210.
Escape from the Cartesian Theater.Daniel C. Dennett & Marcel Kinsbourne - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (2):234-247.
The illusory triumph of machine over mind: Wegner's eliminativism and the real promise of psychology.Anthony I. Jack & Philip Robbins - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (5):665-666.
How to Accept Wegner's Illusion of Conscious Will and Still Defend Moral Responsibility.Richard Double - 2004 - Behavior and Philosophy 32 (2):479 - 491.
Two causal mistakes in Wegner's illusion of conscious will.Holly Andersen - 2006
Throwing the conscious baby out with the Cartesian bath water.J. Aronson, E. Dietrich & E. Way - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (2):202-203.
A Defense of Cartesian Materialism.Gerard O’Brien & Jonathan Opie - 1999 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (4):939-963.
Is Global Workspace a Cartesian Theater? How the Neuro-Astroglial Interaction Model Solves Conceptual Issues.Samuel Bellini-Leite & Alfredo Pereira - 2013 - Journal of Cognitive Science 14 (4):335-360.
When consciousness matters: A critical review of Daniel Wegner's the illusion of conscious will. [REVIEW]Eddy Nahmias - 2002 - Philosophical Psychology 15 (4):527-541.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
44 (#509,880)

6 months
7 (#730,543)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Daniel C. Dennett
Tufts University

Citations of this work

Freedom regained: The possibility of free will. [REVIEW]Anco Peeters - 2017 - Philosophical Psychology 30 (5):682-684.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references