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  title info:
    title: Persons and causes
    sub title: the metaphysics of free will
  name:
    name part: O'Connor, Timothy
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 135 pages)
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N
  table of contents: PQ -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
  note: Timothy O'Connor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Free will and determinism
  subject:
    topic: Personal Autonomy
  subject:
    topic: Libre arbitre et déterminisme
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Free Will & Determinism
  subject:
    topic: Free will and determinism
  subject:
    topic: Vrije wil
  subject:
    topic: Metafysica
  classification: BJ1461 .O27 2000eb
  classification: 123/.5
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    title info:
      title: Persons and causes
    name:
      name part: O'Connor, Timothy, 1965-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
    identifier: (DLC) 99020501
    identifier: (OCoLC)40979851
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  identifier: 9780585363424
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 010404
    record change date: 20260318171618.8
    record identifier: in00005701021
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng