Interview with Sean Spence
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The purpose of using the term the ‘actor’s brain’ was to identify what I hoped would be captured and characterized over the course of the text: namely, those conditions (anatomical, physiological, psychological, etc.) which must pertain within the nervous system of a human being in order for them to be seen to be performing, what appear to be, ‘purposeful’ acts in the world. In other words: What is it within the systems of the brain that ‘supports’ the emergence of apparently voluntary behaviour? Such an account could not be exhaustive (hence, the book’s subtitle: ‘Exploring the Cognitive Neuroscience of Free Will’). However, I was very concerned that it should be grounded in neurobiology, unapologetically building upon what is known of neural function, while also eventually arriving at behavioural, phenomenological distinctions that would be recognizable to a philosophical readership, e.g., the difference between ‘actions’ and ‘movements’, between ‘purposeful’ behaviours and mechanical ‘events’, as these might be understood by an author such as MacMurray (1991). One of the most prominent themes to emerge across the book was that of constraint: the limitations set upon the extent of
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تاریخ انتشار 2011