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Human action, deliberation and causation / edited by Jan Bransen and Stefaan E. Cuypers.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- 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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