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2018 , Vol. 13 >Issue 3: 394 - 401

DOI: 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

Published date: 15 Sep 2018

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2018 Higher Education Press and Brill
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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.

Key words： consciousness; free will; emergence; qualia; dualism; cognitive science; first-person perspective

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Timothy O’Connor . Consciousness, Free Will, and the Sciences of the Mind[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2018 , 13(3) : 394 -401 . DOI: 10.3868/s030-007-018-0030-6

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