Laws, mind, and free will / Steven Horst.

Laws, mind, and free will /

In this work, Steven Horst addresses the apparent dissonance between the picture of the natural world that arises from the sciences and our understanding of ourselves as agents who think and act.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Horst, Steven W., 1960-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011. ©2011
Series:	Life and mind.
Subjects:	Free will and determinism. Philosophy of mind. Law (Philosophical concept) Personal Autonomy
Online Access:	Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Laws and the mind
Laws, vindication, and ontology
The received solution in computational psychology
Cartwritght, universal laws, and fundamentalism
Empiricism and laws
Laws and idealization
Laws and freedom
Freedom, determinism, and two accounts of laws
Three appeals and a Kantian conclusion
Psychophysical laws and models of early vision
Modeling cortical dynamics
Belief-desire psychologies.