具體描述
Personal Agency consists of two parts. In Part II, a radically libertarian theory of action is defended which combines aspects of agent causalism and volitionism. This theory accords to volitions the status of basic mental actions, maintaining that these are spontaneous exercises of the will-a 'two-way' power which rational agents can freely exercise in the light of reason. Lowe contends that substances, not events, are the causal source of all change in the world-with rational, free agents like ourselves having a special place in the causal order as unmoved movers, or initiators of new causal chains. And he defends a thoroughgoing externalism regarding reasons for action, holding these to be mind-independent worldly entities rather than the beliefs and desires of agents. Part I prepares the ground for this theory by undermining the threat presented to it by physicalism. It does this by challenging the causal closure argument for physicalism in all of its forms and by showing that a dualistic philosophy of mind-one which holds that human mental states and their subjects cannot be identified with bodily states and human bodies respectively-is both metaphysically coherent and entirely consistent with known empirical facts.
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圖書目錄
Introduction
Part I: Mental Causation, Causal Closure, and Emergent Dualism
1: Self, Agency, and Mental Causation
2: Causal Closure Principles and Emergentism
3: Physical Causal Closure and the Invisibility of Mental Causation
4: Could Volitions be Epiphenomenal?
5: The Self as an Emergent Substance
Part II: Persons, Rational Action, and Free Will
6: Event Causation and Agent Causation
7: Personal Agency
8: Substance Causation, Persons, and Free Will
9: Rational Selves and Freedom of Action
10: Needs, Facts, Goodness, and Truth
Bibliography
Index
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Interactive substance dualism的絕世之作。為什麼會有如此精妙的理論。雖然自己的論文反駁他，但是Lowe是最令我敬重的一位大師，毋寜說，與他之間感到一種真實的學術想法之間的相通。
评分Interactive substance dualism的絕世之作。為什麼會有如此精妙的理論。雖然自己的論文反駁他，但是Lowe是最令我敬重的一位大師，毋寜說，與他之間感到一種真實的學術想法之間的相通。
评分Interactive substance dualism的絕世之作。為什麼會有如此精妙的理論。雖然自己的論文反駁他，但是Lowe是最令我敬重的一位大師，毋寜說，與他之間感到一種真實的學術想法之間的相通。
评分Interactive substance dualism的絕世之作。為什麼會有如此精妙的理論。雖然自己的論文反駁他，但是Lowe是最令我敬重的一位大師，毋寜說，與他之間感到一種真實的學術想法之間的相通。
评分Interactive substance dualism的絕世之作。為什麼會有如此精妙的理論。雖然自己的論文反駁他，但是Lowe是最令我敬重的一位大師，毋寜說，與他之間感到一種真實的學術想法之間的相通。
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