Agents Causes And Events
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Agents And Their Actions
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2001
Agents And Their Actions written by and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Agents Causes And Events
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Author : Timothy O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 1995
Agents Causes And Events written by Timothy O'Connor and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Libertarianism, action, and self-determination / Galen Strawson -- The problem of autonomy / Thomas Nagel -- On giving libertarians what they say they want / Daniel Dennett -- Libertarianism and rationality / Richard Double -- Reason's explanation of action / Carl Ginet -- Agents, causes, and events / Roderick M. Chisholm -- Choice and indeterminism / Robert Nozick -- Two kinds of incompatibilism / Robert Kane -- Two concepts of freedom / William Rowe -- Agent causation / Timothy O'Connor -- Toward a credible agent-causal account of free will / Randolphe Clarke -- When is the will free? / Peter van Inwagen -- When the will is free / John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza
Personal Agency
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Author : E. J. Lowe
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-09-04
Personal Agency written by E. J. Lowe and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Philosophy categories.
Personal Agency consists of two parts. In Part II, a radically libertarian theory of action is defended which combines aspects of agent causalism and volitionism. This theory accords to volitions the status of basic mental actions, maintaining that these are spontaneous exercises of the will--a 'two-way' power which rational agents can freely exercise in the light of reason. Lowe contends that substances, not events, are the causal source of all change in the world--with rational, free agents like ourselves having a special place in the causal order as unmoved movers, or initiators of new causal chains. And he defends a thoroughgoing externalism regarding reasons for action, holding these to be mind-independent worldly entities rather than the beliefs and desires of agents. Part I prepares the ground for this theory by undermining the threat presented to it by physicalism. It does this by challenging the causal closure argument for physicalism in all of its forms and by showing that a dualistic philosophy of mind--one which holds that human mental states and their subjects cannot be identified with bodily states and human bodies respectively--is both metaphysically coherent and entirely consistent with known empirical facts.
Persons And Causes
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Author : Timothy O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-14
Persons And Causes written by Timothy O'Connor and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-14 with Philosophy categories.
This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind.
The Metaphysics Of Action
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Author : David-Hillel Ruben
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-06-25
The Metaphysics Of Action written by David-Hillel Ruben and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-25 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one’s action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical act but can be explained using conditionals; that action is not the same as causing something to happen; and in the case of a special but important subset of actions, for example the opening of a window, the action is identical to the event of the window’s opening. A result of this last account is that it places actions out in the world, sometimes far removed in time and space from the actor’s body. The world is full of action; actions do not just exist in the many little islands of space and time that all of our bodies inhabit. In the final chapter, Ruben describes and discusses a skeptical challenge to the idea that we can ever know whether or not someone else has acted, rather than just passive events having happened to that person.
Action And Its Explanation
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Author : David-Hillel Ruben
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003
Action And Its Explanation written by David-Hillel Ruben and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
David-Hillel Ruben's new book pursues some novel and unusual standpoints in the philosophy of action. He rejects, for example, the most widely held view about how to count actions, and argues for what he calls a 'prolific theory' of act individuation. He also describes and argues against the two leading theories of the nature of action, the causal theory and the agent causal theory. The causal theory cannot account for skilled activity, nor for mental action. The agent causalist theory unnecessarily reifies causings. He identifies an assumption that they share, and that most action theorists have assumed to be unproblematic and uncontroversial, that an action is, or entails the existence of, an event. Several different meanings to that claim are disentangled and in the most interesting sense of that claim, Ruben denies that it is true. His own alternative is simple and unpretentious: nothing informative can be said about the nature of action that explicates action in any other terms.Ruben sketches a theory of causal explanation of action that eschews the requirement for laws or generalisations, and this effectively quashes one argument for the oft-repeated view that no explanations of action can be causal, on the grounds that there are no convincing cases of laws of human action. He addresses a number of questions about the knowledge an agent has of his own actions, looking particularly at examples of pathological cases of action in which, for one reason or another, the agent does not know what he is doing.Inspiring and enlightening in its challenge to received wisdom, and in its convincing defence of some unfashionable positions, Action and its Explanation will be required reading for anyone working in this field.
Understanding Human Agency
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Author : Erasmus Mayr
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2011-09-15
Understanding Human Agency written by Erasmus Mayr and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
How can we be active agents when processes in the world are explicable by the laws of natural science? Erasmus Mayr explores this deep-running tension in our self-understanding and develops a new agent-causal solution to the conflict. He argues that actions explained by aims and reasons are compatible with a scientific view of the universe.
Free Will And Classical Theism
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Author : Hugh J. McCann
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Free Will And Classical Theism written by Hugh J. McCann and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Philosophy categories.
The articles in the present collection deal with the religious dimension of the problem of free will. Together they provide a historical and contemporary overview of problems in the theology of freedom, along with recent work by some important philosophers in the field aimed at resolving those problems.
Philosophy Of Action
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Author : Jonathan Dancy
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-02-23
Philosophy Of Action written by Jonathan Dancy and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-23 with Philosophy categories.
The Philosophy of Action: An Anthology is an authoritative collection of key work by top scholars, arranged thematically and accompanied by expert introductions written by the editors. This unique collection brings together a selection of the most influential essays from the 1960s to the present day. An invaluable collection that brings together a selection of the most important classic and contemporary articles in philosophy of action, from the 1960’s to the present day No other broad-ranging and detailed coverage of this kind currently exists in the field Each themed section opens with a synoptic introduction and includes a comprehensive further reading list to guide students Includes sections on action and agency, willing and trying, intention and intentional action, acting for a reason, the explanation of action, and free agency and responsibility Written and organised in a style that allows it to be used as a primary teaching resource in its own right
Living Without Free Will
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Author : Derk Pereboom
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-02
Living Without Free Will written by Derk Pereboom and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-02 with Philosophy categories.
Argues that morality, meaning and value remain intact even if we are not morally responsible for our actions.