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4 - The experience of free will and the experience of agency: an error-prone, reconstructive process

from Part II - Conceptual issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

Walter Glannon
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University of Calgary
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Free Will and the Brain
Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives
, pp. 66 - 80
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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