| Description |
xi, 211 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in philosophy |
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Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I. The Problems of Natural Agency: 1. A theory in serach of its problem -- 2. Commitments of the ethical perspective -- 3. Commitments of the natural perspective -- 4. The core of the problem of action - and a plausible solution -- Part II. The Value of a Causal Theory of Action: 1. A traditional approach to the problem of natural agency -- 2. Is action possible under determination 3. Is action posisble under indererminism? 4. A comparison with Dennett's elbow room -- 5. The conditional analysis argument -- Part III. Developing a Causal Theory of Action: 1. Causal analyses of action -- 2. The challenge of Akrasia -- Part IV. The Challenge of Causal Deviance: Part V. Coping with Basic Deviance: 1. The promise of the sensitivity strategy 2. Alternative versions of the sensitivity strategy -- 3. Assessing the sensitivity strategy 4. Sensitive and sustained causation -- Part VI. Limits for the Causal Theory of Action: 1. Dealing with the Agent-Causationist syndrome -- 2. The place of th4 causal theory of action in the wider project of reconciliatory naturalism -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Analysis |
Man Actions Causes - Philosophical perspectives |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index |
| Subject |
Act (Philosophy)
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Causation.
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Personalism.
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| LC no. |
89033231 |
| ISBN |
0521374308 |
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