Evolution Beyond Determinism: On Dennett’s Compatibilism and the Too Timeless Free Will Debate
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Biography Maria Brincker is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Massachusetts Boston and has previously held an Arts & Neuroscience fellowship at Columbia University. Her interdisciplinary work spans a broad array of topics within philosophy of mind and neuroscience, such as affordance perception, mirror neuron theories, sensorimotor grounding of cognition, typical and atypical social cognitive development, action theory and aesthetics.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015