Personal agency : the metaphysics of mind and action / E.J. Lowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agent (Philosophy).

Choice (Psychology).

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Metaphysics of mind and action

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-218) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-959250-0

1-281-85256-2

9786611852566

0-19-155090-6

OCLC:

302343890