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Personal agency : the metaphysics of mind and action /

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E.J. Lowe defends a common-sense view of ourselves as free agents, capable of bringing about changes in the world through the choices we make, rather than being caused to act as we do by factors external to our will.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lowe, E. J. (E. Jonathan)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module.
Subjects:
Agent (Philosophy)
Choice (Psychology)
Free will and determinism.
Choice Behavior
Personal Autonomy
Choix (Psychologie)
Libre arbitre et déterminisme.
08.36 philosophical anthropology, philosophy of psychology.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Free will and determinism
Handlungstheorie
Kausalität
Willensfreiheit
Determinismus
Philosophy of the mind.
Free will.
Decision-making.
Val (psykologi)
Viljans frihet.
Handlingsteori.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:E.J. Lowe defends a common-sense view of ourselves as free agents, capable of bringing about changes in the world through the choices we make, rather than being caused to act as we do by factors external to our will.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and indexes.
ISBN:9780191550904
0191550906
9780191712418
0191712418