Mind, Philosophy of, Free Will & Determinism, Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous

Time, Will and Mental Process

Name: Time, Will and Mental Process
Author: Brown, Jason W.
ISBN: 9781441932525

by Brown, Jason W.

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In this volume, distinguished neurologist Jason W. Brown extends the microgenetic theory of the mind by offering a new approach to the problem of time and free will. Brown bases his work on a unitary process model of brain and behavior. He examines the problem of subjective time and free will, the experiential present, the nature of intentionality, and the creative properties of physical growth and mental process.

Asymmetry of past & future/autonomy & agent causation/desire & value/belief & conviction/will, agency & constraint/action

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Brown's (NYU Medical Center) last book, Self and Process (Springer-Verlag, 1991), questioned whether change is something that objects undergo, or whether objects are snapshots that change leaves behind as the mind's record of its passage. As a continuation of the previous line of inquiry, the present work, a further stage in the growth of a theory of the mind-brain grounded in clinical case study, seeks to find an opening for free will in the explication of agent autonomy--the causal independence of the self--through the virtual duration of the phenomenal present. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)