Was Wegner Rejecting Mental Causality?

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Abstract: Daniel Wegner’s theory of apparent mental causation is often misread. His aim was not to question the causal effectiveness of conscious mental states like intentions. Rather, he attempted to show that our subjective sense of agency is not a completely reliable indicator of the actual causality of action, and needs to be replaced by more objective means of inquiry.

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Tomas Marvan
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The Illusion of Conscious Will.Daniel Wegner - 2002 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Effective intentions: the power of conscious will.Alfred Mele - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Mental Causation.David Robb & John Heil - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Précis of the illusion of conscious will.Daniel M. Wegner - 2004 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (5):649-659.

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