Natural agency: an essay on the causal theory of action
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Titel: Natural agency
Autor: Bishop, John
Jahr: 1989
Contents
Acknowledgments page xi
INTRODUCTION 1
Notes 9
1. THE PROBLEM OF NATURAL AGENCY 10
I. A Theory in Search of Its Problem 10
The standard answer: Accounting for the action/behavior distinc¬
tion 11
Locating agency in context: Our ethical perspective 12
What is philosophically puzzling about agency? The natural
perspective on action 14
Skepticism about natural agency: A first statement 16
Is skepticism about action out of date? 18
II. Commitments of the Ethical Perspective 19
What kind of freedom of action does moral responsibility entail? 19
Freedom as satisfaction of the "could have done otherwise " condi¬
tion 20
The Frankfurt counterexamples 21
Moral luck and the condition of control 22
The condition of control as a CDO condition 23
Actions as exercises of control 25
III. Commitments of the Natural Perspective 26
The "containment of indeterminism" response 27
Restating the problem of natural agency as independent of de¬
terminism 28
The "dilemma" formulation of the problem of natural agency 29
A radical separation of the problem of natural agency from the
question of determinism 31
The "clash of explanation-types" formulation 32
Assessment of the clash of explanation-types formulation 33
v
The Dennett-MacKay complementarity thesis 35
Limitations oj the complementarity thesis 36
An emphatic aside: Realism about action 37
IV. The Core of the Problem of Action - and a Plausible
Solution 38
The agent-causation formulation of the problem of natural agency 38
Further advantages to the agent-causation formulation 41
The causal theory of action as a solution to the problem of natural
agency 42
NOTES 44
2. THE VALUE OF A CAUSAL THEORY OF ACTION 49
I. A Traditional Approach to the Problem of Natural Agency 49
II. Is Action Possible under Determinism? 52
The consequence argument for incompatibilism 53
Questioning the main modal principle: Slote's implicit appeal to
CTA 54
Additional note: Earlier criticisms of the consequence argument 56
The place of CTA in compatibilist responses to the consequence
argument 57
A CTA sufficient to defeat the consequence argument will need to
be deterministic 59
The case against a specifically deterministic causal theory of action 61
Should incompatibilists seek to reject CTA altogether? 66
III. Is Action Possible under Indeterminism? 67
Agent-causation 68
Is a probabilistic causal theory of action possible? 70
IV. A Comparison with Dennett's Elbow Room 74
Dennett's negative case for reconciliatory naturalism 74
Reconstructing the natural evolution of agency: Its independence
of the metaphysical problem 74
Dennett's epistemologizing of the free will problem 76
Does intentional system theory alone resolve the problem of nat¬
ural agency? 80
V. The Conditional Analysis Argument 83
Problems for the conditional analysis argument 84
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Lehrer's rejection of conditional analyses 85
Revising the CAA strategy 88
The impotence of CAA without CTA 88
NOTES 90
3. DEVELOPING A CAUSAL THEORY OF ACTION 95
I. Causal Analyses of Action 95
A first approach to a CTA analysis 98
Is a CTA analysis in terms of reasons even possible? 99
How to make a positive case for a reason-based CTA analysis 101
A first hypothesis for a CTA analysis 104
Intentional action and action in general 106
II. The Challenge of Akrasia 107
Characterizing weak-willed action 108
Are weak-willed actions a real possibility? 109
How akrasia poses a problem for a CTA analysis 110
How to specify the rationality condition for a CTA analysis:
Davidson's notion of an unconditional practical judgment 112
Unconditional practical judgments construed as intentions 113
An independent argument for admitting intentions 114
The possibility of final stage akrasia 117
Akrasia as a problem for CTA's causal condition 119
NOTES 121
4. THE CHALLENGE OF CAUSAL DEVIANCE 125
Causally deviant counterexamples to CTA-H 125
How deviant cases challenge CTA 126
Match with the action-plan as necessary for nondeviant action 128
Making precise the condition of match with the action-plan 129
The problem of basic deviance 132
Excluding basic deviance: The causal chain must constitute prac¬
tical reasoning 134
Excluding basic deviance: Causation by virtually concurrent in¬
tentions 137
Excluding basic deviance: The causal immediacy strategy 138
Excluding basic deviance: Volitions 140
May the exclusion of basic deviance be left to future empirical
enquiry? 142
NOTES 145
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5. COPING WITH BASIC DEVIANCE 148 j
I. The Promise of the Sensitivity Strategy 148
Counter/actual and differential explanation versions of the
sensitivity condition 150
II. Alternative Versions of the Sensitivity Strategy 151
The Frankfurt examples again 151
The reverse behavioral censor 153
A problem for the differential explanation version? 153
A teleological construal of the sensitivity condition 154
III. Assessing the Sensitivity Strategy 155
Prosthetic aids to action 155
Heteromesial causal chains 156
Should a sensitivity CTA analysis also exclude heteromesy? 157
Heterogeneity among the heteromesial cases 158
Considerations about responsibility as reinforcing the deviance of
preemptively heteromesial cases 160
Implications of preemptively heteromesial cases for a CTA
analysis 162
A consilience of grounds for rejecting a sensitivity CTA analysis 165
IV. Sensitive and Sustained Causation 167
Sustained causation 167
Servosystems and feedback loops 168
Preemptive heteromesy again 169
Appeal to the detailed architecture of feedback loops 170
The final breakthrough? 171
NOTES 172
6. LIMITS FOR THE CAUSAL THEORY OF ACTION 176
I. Dealing with the Agent-Causationist Syndrome 176
The story so far 176
In what sense is basic action primitive? 177
Other aspects of the agent-causationist syndrome 180
II. The Place of the Causal Theory of Action in the Wider
Project of Reconciliatory Naturalism 184
A fundamental problem ignored? 184
viii
CTA-BI solves the problem of natural agency only given natural
realism about intentional states 187
How much of a problem of natural moral autonomy remains once
CTA resolves the problem of natural agency? 190
CTA and the vindication of moral responsibility 191
NOTES 194
Bibliography 197
Index 203
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