Self Is Magic

Are We Free?: Psychology and Free Will

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wegner, Daniel M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent mental causation; Conscious will; Determinism; Free will; Self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920395703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189636.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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