Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Mental causation, causal closure, and emergent dualism -- Self, agency, and mental causation -- Causal closure principles and emergentism -- Physical causal closure and the invisibility of mental causation -- Could volitions be epiphenomenal? -- The self as an emergent substance -- Persons, rational action, and free will -- Event causation and agent causation -- Personal agency -- Substance causation, persons, and free will -- Rational selves and freedom of action -- Needs, facts, goodness, and truth |
Summary |
E.J. Lowe defends a common-sense view of ourselves as free agents, capable of bringing about changes in the world through the choices we make, rather than being caused to act as we do by factors external to our will |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and indexes |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Agent (Philosophy)
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Choice (Psychology)
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Free will and determinism.
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Choice Behavior
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Personal Autonomy
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Choice (Psychology)
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Free will and determinism.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191550904 |
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0191550906 |
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9780191712418 |
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0191712418 |
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