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10 results for "intention"
P_2_14 — Philosophy of Action: Agency, Intention, and Collective Action
The philosophy of action investigates the nature of human agency — what it means to act (as opposed to merely moving), what makes an action intentional, how reasons relate to causes, and how individual agency extends to
K_3_08 — Intention, Volition, and Motor Consciousness
The neural basis of voluntary action and the timing of conscious intention relative to brain activity has become one of the most productive — and philosophically consequential — research programs in consciousness studies
X_2_16 — Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Trials
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) — the systematic integration of the best available research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values to guide medical decision-making — was formalized as a paradigm by Gordon Guya
K_2_09 — Neuroscience of Free Will
The neuroscience of free will centers on experiments testing whether conscious intention precedes or follows the neural preparation for action. Benjamin Libet's landmark 1983 experiments showed that the brain's "readines
G_4_13 — HADD and Agency Detection — Why We See Beings Everywhere
The Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD) — a term coined by cognitive scientist Justin Barrett (2000) building on work by Stewart Guthrie (1993) and Pascal Boyer (2001) — refers to the proposed cognitive mechanism
L_1_13 — Homo Naledi: Underground Burial and Primitive Morphology
Homo naledi is one of the most unexpected and controversial hominin discoveries of the 21st century. Announced in 2015 by Lee Berger (University of the Witwatersrand) and an international team, the species was recovered
P_3_04 — Phenomenology — Consciousness and the Structure of Experience
Phenomenology, founded by Edmund Husserl at the turn of the 20th century, is the systematic study of the structures of consciousness and the phenomena that appear within it. Through its central methodological innovations
P_1_19 — Philosophy of Mind
The philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that investigates the nature of mental phenomena — consciousness, intentionality, perception, emotion, belief, desire, and their relationship to the physical body and br
P_1_12 — Philosophy of Perception: Qualia, Illusion, and Direct Realism
The philosophy of perception investigates the nature, objects, and epistemological status of perceptual experience — asking what we are aware of when we see, hear, touch, taste, or smell the world, and how perceptual exp
P_1_08 — Philosophy of Mind and the Body Problem
The mind-body problem — how do mental states (thoughts, feelings, consciousness) relate to physical states (neurons, brains, bodies)? — is one of the oldest and most intractable problems in philosophy. Descartes (1641) f
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