Human Volition | Patrick Haggard (2016)

"VOLITION, AGENCY, RESPONSIBILITY:
COGNITIVE MECHANISMS OF HUMAN ACTION"
Lecture Series by Patrick Haggard

Mardi 17 mai 2016 de 14h30 à 16h30.
École normale supérieure, 29, rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris. Salle Jean Jaurès

Lecture 1: Human Volition

Voluntary action is central to our views of human nature, but eludes scientific investigation. Philosophers sometimes define voluntary actions as actions which are reasons-responsive, or are “up to us”. In contrast, neuroscientists often consider voluntary actions as involving a specific set of brain pathways that lead to movement. In particular, brain science distinguishes between movements that are externally-triggered, such as reflex responses, and those that are internally-generated.This lecture considers what this capacity for internally-generated movement might mean, what basis it might have in the human brain, and how it relates to our conscious experience of our own actions.

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