Agency, consciousness, and executive control

Philosophia

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-30

  Aguilar, Jesús H ^a   Buckareff, Andrei A ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MARIST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Causal theory of action; Consciousness; Executive control; Intentional action

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849085566     PISSN: 00483893     EISSN: 15749274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11406-008-9123-y     Document Type: Article

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