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Attempts to answer the question of whether it is possible to understand agency as realized within a world construed 'naturalistically', that is, in terms of causal relations among events and states of affairs, or whether an adequate ontology requires sui generis acts that are essentially v...

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Main Author: Enç, Berent
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Subjects:
Act (Philosophy)
Causation.
Reasoning.
Will.
Decision making.
Volition
Decision Making
Causality
Action (Philosophie)
Causalité.
Raisonnement.
Volonté.
Prise de décision.
decision making.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Causation
Decision making
Reasoning
Will
Handelingstheorie.
Electronic books.
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Summary:Attempts to answer the question of whether it is possible to understand agency as realized within a world construed 'naturalistically', that is, in terms of causal relations among events and states of affairs, or whether an adequate ontology requires sui generis acts that are essentially voluntary, such as volitions or agent-causation. Berent Enç defends the possibility of naturalizing agency via a causal theory of action (CTA).
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index.
ISBN:0199256020
9780199256020
1429420529
9781429420525
9780191602238
019160223X
9780199204182
0199204187