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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Erasmus Mayr is Professor of Philosophy at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He studied philosophy and law in Munich and Oxford, and received the Wolfgang-Stegmüller Award of the German Society for Analytical Philosophy (GAP) in 2009 for his PhD thesis.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1: The Problem of Human Agency * 2: The Agenda for Finding a Solution * 3: 'Alien' Desires and Frankfurt's Problem of Identification * 4: Identification, Desires, and Practical reasoning * 5: Deviant Causal Chains * 6: How Agent-Causation Works I: The Problem, and a Brief Theory of Powers * 7: How Agent-Causation Works II: The irreducibility of powers * 8: How Agent-Causation Works III: From Causal Powers to Agent-Causation * 9: Are Agent-Causal Powers reducible to Microproperties? * 10: Intentional Agency and Acting for Reasons * 11: Understanding Human Agency * References * Index
* Introduction * 1: The Problem of Human Agency * 2: The Agenda for Finding a Solution * 3: 'Alien' Desires and Frankfurt's Problem of Identification * 4: Identification, Desires, and Practical reasoning * 5: Deviant Causal Chains * 6: How Agent-Causation Works I: The Problem, and a Brief Theory of Powers * 7: How Agent-Causation Works II: The irreducibility of powers * 8: How Agent-Causation Works III: From Causal Powers to Agent-Causation * 9: Are Agent-Causal Powers reducible to Microproperties? * 10: Intentional Agency and Acting for Reasons * 11: Understanding Human Agency * References * Index
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