Understanding human agency /

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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 compatib...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Mayr, Erasmus
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Zusammenfassung:
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 314 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, 2007.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-309) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-882585-4
0-19-161926-4
Schlagworte:
Agent (Philosophy)
Act (Philosophy)
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