Vetoing and Consciousness

In T. Vierkant, J. Kiverstein & A. Clark (eds.), Decomposing the Will. Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
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This chapter’s topic is Benjamin Libet’s position on vetoing. To veto a conscious decision, intention, or urge is to decide not to act on it and to refrain, accordingly, from acting on it. Libet associates veto power with some fancy metaphysics. This chapter sets the metaphysical issues aside and concentrates on the empirical ones, focusing on neuroscientific research that bears on vetoing.

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