Agency and Self-Awareness

'This fine collection comprises seventeen articles by philosophers and psychologists, and a comprehensive introduction by the co-editors. The 47-page introduction, entitled Agency and Self-Awareness: Mechanisms and Epistemology, provides a superb entrée to both the topic of the collection and the experimental work the various authors draw upon; it is worth the price of admission on its own. . . . The collection is certainly required reading for anyone interested in action theory or the role of agency in self-conception. It will also be useful for those who work on self-knowledge and the philosophy of psychology.'

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Sense of Agency: Awareness and Ownership of Action ; 3. Action: Awareness, Ownership, and Knowledge ; 4. Conscious Awareness of Intention and of Action ; 5. Consciousness of Action and Self-Consciousness: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach ; 6. The Role of Demonstratives in Action-Explanation ; 7. Experimental Approaches to Action ; 8. Perception and Agency ; 9. Fractionating and the Intentional Control of Behaviour: A Neuropsychological Analysis ; 10. Dual Control and the Causal Theory of Action: The Case of Non-intentional Action ; 11. The Development of Young Children's Action Control and Awareness ; 12. Children's Action Control and Awareness: Comment on Frye and Zelazo ; 13. The Development of Self-Consciousness ; 14. Perceiving Intentions ; 15. The Sense of Ownership: An Analogy between Sensation and Action ; 16. The Epistemology of Physical Action ; 17. On Knowing One's Own Actions ; 18. Intentional Action and Self-Awareness ; Index