Persons and causes :the metaphysics of free will

  • 作者: O'Connor, Timothy,
  • 出版: New York : Oxford University Press 2000.
  • 稽核項: 1 online resource (xv, 135 pages).
  • 標題: Electronic books. , PHILOSOPHY Free Will & Determinism. , Free will and determinism. , PHILOSOPHY , Vrije wil. , Free Will & Determinism. , Libre arbitre et déterminisme. , Personal Autonomy , Metafysica.
  • ISBN: 1423762975 , 9781423762973
  • ISBN: 0195133080
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  • 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index. ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Freedom and Determinism""; ""1.1 An Ancient Argument""; ""1.2 Some Modal Principles and the Argument for Incompatibilism""; ""1.3 The Fixity of the Past and of Natural Laws""; ""1.4 Freedom and Responsibility""; ""2. Freedom and Indeterminism: Some Unsatisfactory Proposals""; ""2.1 The Trouble with Incompatibilism""; ""2.2 Simple Indeterminism: Carl Ginet on Choice and Control""; ""2.3 Causal Indeterminism: The General Strategy and a Problem Posed""; ""3. The Agent as Cause: Reid, Taylor, and Chisholm""; ""3.1 The Agency Theory""; ""3.2 Thomas Reid"" ""3.3 Richard Taylor""""3.4 Roderick Chisholm""; ""3.5 Summary""; ""Appendix: Chisholm's Later Writings on Agency""; ""4. The Metaphysics of Free Will""; ""4.1 Overview""; ""4.2 Event Causation""; ""4.3 Agent Causation""; ""4.4 C. D. Broad's Objection to the Very Idea of Agent Causation""; ""4.5 Remarks on a Contemporary Alternative Account of Agent Causation""; ""4.6 Ersatz Agent Causation?""; ""4.7 Alternative Possibilities, Responsibility, and Agent Causation""; ""5. Reasons and Causes""; ""5.1 Reasons Explanation and the Agency Theory""; ""5.2 Objections to the Account"" ""5.3 Reasons and Contrastive Explanation""""5.4 Reasons and Tendencies to Act: A Residual Problem and a Speculative Proposal""; ""5.5 When Is the Will Free?""; ""5.6 Conclusion""; ""6. Agency, Mind, and Reductionism""; ""6.1 Introductory Polemics: 'The Emerging Scientific Picture of the World'""; ""6.2 Emergence""; ""6.3 Emergence and Consciousness""; ""6.4 The Emergence of Active Power""; ""6.5 An Epistemological Objection to Agent Causation""; ""6.6 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N"" ""P""""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""
  • 摘要: This title revisits the traditional explanation of freedom of will. O'Connor defines it as reason-guided agent causation and places his argument within a general metaphysics.
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