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Personal Agency The Metaphysics of Mind and Action




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 10/2010





Trama

Lowe defends a common-sense view of ourselves as free agents, capable of bringing about changes in the world through the choices we make, rather than being caused to act as we do by factors external to our will. He demonstrates many weaknesses of the materialist conception of the human mind and its powers that is dominant in Western philosophy.




Note Editore

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.




Sommario

1 - Self, Agency, and Mental Causation
2 - Causal Closure Principles and Emergentism
3 - Physical Causal Closure and the Invisibility of Mental Causation
4 - Could Volitions be Epiphenomenal?
5 - The Self as an Emergent Substance
6 - Event Causation and Agent Causation
7 - Personal Agency
8 - Substance Causation, Persons, and Free Will
9 - Rational Selves and Freedom of Action
10 - Needs, Facts, Goodness, and Truth




Autore

E. J. Lowe was educated at the Universities of Cambridge (1968-72) and Oxford (1972-5). He has been a member of the Philosophy Department at Durham University since 1980 and a Professor since 1995. He is the author of many books and articles on metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and action, the philosophy of logic and language, and the philosophy of John Locke.










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ISBN:

9780199592500

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 235 x 14.2 x 156 mm Ø 366 gr
Formato: Brossura
Pagine Arabe: 242


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