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Wegner's “illusion” anticipated: Jonathan Edwards on the will

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Ryan D. Tweney  and
Amy B. Wachholtz
Ryan D. Tweney*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH43403http://personal.bgsu.edu/~tweney
Amy B. Wachholtz*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH43403http://personal.bgsu.edu/~tweney
*
tweney@bgnet.bgsu.edu
amywach@bgnet.bgsu
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Abstract:

Wegner's The Illusion of Conscious Will (2002) ignores an important aspect of the history of the concept: the determinism of Jonathan Edwards (1754) and the later response to this determinism by William James and others. We argue that Edwards's formulation, and James's resolution of the resulting dilemma, are superior to Wegner's.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 676
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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