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Introduction Introduction
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Personal and Subpersonal Personal and Subpersonal
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Subpersonal Representation Subpersonal Representation
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Making space for subpersonal representation Making space for subpersonal representation
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Interaction of subpersonal representations with the personal level Interaction of subpersonal representations with the personal level
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The Challenge from Multiple Realizability The Challenge from Multiple Realizability
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Representational Models and Brain Mechanisms Representational Models and Brain Mechanisms
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Applications Applications
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Variability in learning from experience Variability in learning from experience
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Addiction Addiction
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Delusions in schizophrenia Delusions in schizophrenia
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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62 Neural Mechanisms of Decision-Making and the Personal Level
Get accessNicholas Shea, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, London, UK
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Published:05 September 2013
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Abstract
Can findings from psychology and cognitive neuroscience about the neural mechanisms involved in decision-making tell us anything useful about the commonly-understood mental phenomenon of making voluntary choices? Two philosophical objections are considered. First, that the neural data is subpersonal, and so cannot enter into illuminating explanations of personal-level phenomena like voluntary action. Secondly, that mental properties are multiply realized in the brain in such a way as to make them insusceptible to neuroscientific study. The chapter argues that both objections would be weakened by the discovery of empirical generalizations connecting subpersonal properties with personal-level phenomena. It gives three case studies that furnish evidence to that effect. It argues that the existence of such interrelations is consistent with a plausible construal of the personal-subpersonal distinction. Furthermore, there is no reason to suppose that the notion of subpersonal representation relied on in cognitive neuroscience illicitly imports personal-level phenomena like consciousness or normativity, or is otherwise explanatorily problematic.
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