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Wegner's “illusion” anticipated: Jonathan Edwards on the will

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Ryan D. Tweney  and
Amy B. Wachholtz
Ryan D. Tweney*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~tweney
Amy B. Wachholtz*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~tweney
*
tweney@bgnet.bgsu.edu
amywach@bgnet.bgsu
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Wegner's The Illusion of Conscious Will (2002) ignores an important aspect of the history of the concept: the determinism of Jonathan Edwards (1754) and the later response to this determinism by William James and others. We argue that Edwards's formulation, and James's resolution of the resulting dilemma, are superior to Wegner's.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 676
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004