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Human action, deliberation and causation / edited by Jan Bransen and Stefaan E. Cuypers.

Van Pelt Library B105.A35 H85 1998
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Format:
Book
Conference/Event
Contributor:
Bransen, Jan, 1958-
Cuypers, Stefaan E., 1958-
Conference Name:
Utrecht Conference on Human Action and Causality (1996)
Series:
Philosophical studies series ; v. 77.
Philosophical studies series ; v. 77
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Act (Philosophy)--Congresses.
Act (Philosophy).
Agent (Philosophy)--Congresses.
Agent (Philosophy).
Causation--Congresses.
Causation.
Genre:
Conference papers and proceedings.
Physical Description:
298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1998]
Contents:
Part I Deliberation 15
The Possibility of Philosophy of Action / Michael Smith 17
The Real Reasons / Frederick Stoutland 43
Reasons and the First Person / Jaegwon Kim 67
Freedom in Belief and Desire / Philip Pettit, Michael Smith 89
Goodwill, Determinism and Justification / Maureen Sie 113
Making X Happen: Prolepsis and the Problem of Mental Determination / Jan Bransen 131
Part II Causation 155
Minds, Machines, and Money: What Really Explains Behavior / Fred Dretske 157
What Can the Semantic Properties of Innate Representations Explain? / Pierre Jacob 175
The Efficacy of Content: A Functionalist Theory / Tim Crane 199
Two Claims that Can Save a Nonreductive Account of Mental Causation / Marc Slors 225
What We Do: a Nonreductive Approach to Human Action / Lynne Rudder Baker 249
Robust Activity, Event-Causation, and Agent-Causation / Stefaan E. Cuypers 271.
Notes:
Essays presented at the Utrecht Conference on Human Action and Causality, Apr. 24-26, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
0792352041
OCLC:
39368468

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