Understanding human agency:
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| Item Description: | 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 Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 314 p.) |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1
1
THE
PROBLEM
UEFHUMAN
AGENCY
5
1.1.THREEHARMLESSTHESESANDAPROBLEM
6
1.2.REACTINGTOTHEPROBLEM:THE PRIVILEGING REACTION
14
2
THE
AGENDAFUERFINDINGASOLUTION
23
2.1.
WHATKINDOFSOLUTIONISREQUIRED?
23
2.2.
PERFORMANCES,AGENTIALCONTROL,ANDINTENTIONALISM
27
2.3.
EVENT-CAUSALISMVERSUSAGENT-CAUSALISM
36
3
ALIENDESIRESANDFRANKFURT S
PROBLEM
OFIDENTIFICATION
46
3.1.
THECHALLENGEFROMFRANKFURT SCASESOFALIENATION
47
3.2.
FRANKFURT SHIERARCHICALMODEL
52
3.3.
RESPONSESTOTHETHREEPROBLEMS:THELATERFRANKFURT,WATSON,
ANDVELLEMAN
58
4
IDENTIFICATION,
DESIRES,ANDPRACTICALREASONING
69
4.1.
IDENTIFICATIONAS TREATINGADESIRE
ASREASON-GIVING
70
4.2.
THEAUTHORITYOFPRACTICALREASONINGANDTHENATUREOF
MOTIVATINGREASONS
80
4.3.
THREEOBJECTIONS
91
4.4.
CONCLUSION
102
5
DEVIANT
CAUSALCHAINS
104
5.1.
THEPROBLEMOFANTECEDENTIALWAYWARDNESS
104
5.2.
THESTANDARDOFADEQUACYFORACAUSALISTANALYSIS
109
5.3.
THE IMMEDIATECAUSATION STRATEGY
114
5.4.
SENSITIVITYSTRATEGIES
117
5.5.
SUSTAININGCAUSATION
121
5.6.
THENEW MANIFESTATION OR WELL-FUNCTIONING
ANALYSESOFACTION
130
5.7.
CONCLUSION
140
6
HOW
AGENT-CAUSATION
WORKS
I:THEPROBLEM,
ANDABRIEF
THEORY
OFPOWERS
142
6.1.
THECIASSICALARGUMENTAGAINSTTHEPOSSIBILITYOFAGENT-CAUSATION
146
6.2.
POWERSASGENUINEPROPERTIES
159
7
HOW
AGENT-CAUSATIUEN
WORKS
11:THEIRREDUCIBILITY
OFPOWERS
169
7.1.
THEIRREDUCIBILITYOFPOWER-ASCRIPTIONS
170
7.2.
THEONTOLOGICALIRREDUCIBILITYOFPOWERS
181
X CONTENTS
7.3. POWERSWITHOUT
NATURALNECESSITY ANDESSENTIALISM
188
7.4.
CONCLUSION
196
8
HOW
AGENT-CAUSATION
WORKS
III:
FROMCAUSA!POWERSTO
AGENT-CAUSATION
198
8.1.
SUBSTANCE-CAUSATIONAMONGINANIMATESUBSTANCES
198
8.2.
AGENT-CAUSATIONBYHUMANBEINGS
219
8.3.
THEPROPOSEDACCOUNTANDTHESTANDARDOBJECTIONSAGAINST
AGENT-CAUSATION
226
9
AREAGENT-CAUSA!POWERSREDUCIB!E
TOMICROPROPERTIES?
233
9.1.
FIVEDEGREESOFDEPENDENCEOFTHEPROPERTIESOFCOMPOSITES
234
9.2.
THEDEPENDENCEOFHUMAN
POWERSONMICROPROPERTIES
239
9.3.
HUMAN
POWERSAND DOWNWARD
CAUSATION
240
9.4.
SUMMARY
247
10
INTENTIONA!
AGENCYANDACTINGFORREASONS
249
10.1.DAVIDSON SCHALLENGEANDTHEPURPORTED
CAUSA!ELEMENTIN
REASONS-EXPLANATIONS
251
10.2.
REACTINGTOTHECHALLENGE-WHY
(SURPRISINGLY)CAUSALISM
ITSELFDOESNOTPROVIDEANANSWER
254
10.3.
SOMEUNSUCCESSFULNON-CAUSALANSWERSTODAVIDSON SCHALLENGE
259
11
UNDERSTANDING
HUMAN
AGENCY
268
11.1.ACTINGFORAREASONASFOLLOWINGASTANDARDOFSUCCESS
268
11.2.
PUTTINGITALLTOGETHER
291
REFERENCES
297
INDEX
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