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Personal Agency - The Metaphysics of Mind and Action (Paperback)
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Personal Agency - The Metaphysics of Mind and Action (Paperback)
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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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