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Author Lowe, E. J. (E. Jonathan)

Title Personal agency : the metaphysics of mind and action / E.J. Lowe
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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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)
Choice (Psychology)
Free will and determinism.
Choice Behavior
Personal Autonomy
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Agent (Philosophy)
Choice (Psychology)
Free will and determinism.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191550904
0191550906
9780191712418
0191712418