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Free will for everyone – with flaws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

George Mandler*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109
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Wegner's refutation of the notion of a conscious free will is addressed to a general reader. Despite a wide ranging and instructive survey and a conclusion acceptable to current psychological thinking, it is flawed by terminological confusions and lack of attention to relevant evidence and previous psychological approaches. It is suggested that psychology best drop the term will altogether.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004