• DOI:10.1080/0951508021000042049
Corpus ID: 16949962

When consciousness matters: A critical review of Daniel Wegner's The illusion of conscious will

@article{Nahmias2002WhenCM,
  title={When consciousness matters: A critical review of Daniel Wegner's The illusion of conscious will},
  author={Eddy A. Nahmias},
  journal={Philosophical Psychology},
  year={2002},
  volume={15},
  pages={527 - 541}
}

Eddy A. Nahmias

Published 2002

Psychology

Philosophical Psychology

In The illusion of conscious will , Daniel Wegner offers an exciting, informative, and potentially threatening treatise on the psychology of action. I offer several interpretations of the thesis that conscious will is an illusion. The one Wegner seems to suggest is "modular epiphenomenalism": conscious experience of will is produced by a brain system distinct from the system that produces action; it interprets our behavior but does not, as it seems to us, cause it. I argue that the evidence… CONTINUE READING

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