Understanding human agency /
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. He argues that actions explained by aims and reasons are compatib...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. He argues that actions explained by aims and reasons are compatible with a scientific view of the universe. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, 2007. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 314 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191731631 0191731633 9780191619267 0191619264 |