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Beschreibung
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198825852
ISBN-10: 0198825854
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mayr
Hersteller: Oxford University Press (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 233 x 157 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Mayr
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.10.2018
Gewicht: 0,503 kg
Artikel-ID: 113911931

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