Persons and causes : the metaphysics of free will /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Connor, Timothy, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Temas:
Free will and determinism.
Personal Autonomy
Libre arbitre et déterminisme.
PHILOSOPHY > Free Will & Determinism.
Free will and determinism
Vrije wil.
Metafysica.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Taylor3.4 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 Explanation5.4 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
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