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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
Table of Contents:
  • Mental causation, causal closure, and emergent dualism
  • Self, agency, and mental causation
  • Causal closure principles and emergentism
  • Physical causal closure and the invisibility of mental causation
  • Could volitions be epiphenomenal?
  • The self as an emergent substance
  • Persons, rational action, and free will
  • Event causation and agent causation
  • Personal agency
  • Substance causation, persons, and free will
  • Rational selves and freedom of action
  • Needs, facts, goodness, and truth.