Erasmus Mayr

Understanding Human Agency

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780199606214
• ISBN-10: 0199606218
• Artikelnr.: 33253223

Autorenporträt

Erasmus Mayr is Lecturer in Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. He studied philosophy and law in Munich and Oxford, and received the Wolfgang-Stegmüller Award of the German Society for Analytical Philosophy (GAP) in 2009 for his PhD thesis.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: The Problem of Human Agency
* 2: The Agenda for Finding a Solution
* 3: 'Alien' Desires and Frankfurt's Problem of Identification
* 4: Identification, Desires, and Practical reasoning
* 5: Deviant Causal Chains
* 6: How Agent-Causation Works I: The Problem, and a Brief Theory of
Powers
* 7: How Agent-Causation Works II: The irreducibility of powers
* 8: How Agent-Causation Works III: From Causal Powers to
Agent-Causation
* 9: Are Agent-Causal Powers reducible to Microproperties?
* 10: Intentional Agency and Acting for Reasons
* 11: Understanding Human Agency
* References
* Index