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Understanding Human Agency (Hardcover, New)
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Understanding Human Agency (Hardcover, New)
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Our self-understanding as human agents includes a commitment to
three crucial claims about human agency: that agents must be
active, that actions are part of the natural order of the universe,
and that intentional actions can be explained by the agent's
reasons for acting. While all of these claims are indispensable
elements of our view of ourselves as human agents, they are in
continuous conflict and tension with one another, especially once
one adopts the currently predominant view of what the natural order
must be like. One of the central tasks of philosophy of action
consists in showing how, despite appearances, these conflicts can
be resolved and our self-understanding as agents be vindicated. The
mainstream of contemporary philosophy of action holds that this
task can only be fulfilled by an event-causal reductive view of
human agency, paradigmatically embodied in the so-called 'standard
model' developed by Donald Davidson. Erasmus Mayr, in contrast,
develops a new agent-causal solution to these conflicts and shows
why this solution is superior both to event-causalist accounts and
to Von Wright's intentionalism about agency. He offers a
comprehensive theory of substance-causation on the basis of a
realist conception of powers, which allows one to see how the
widespread rejection of agent-causation rests on an unfounded
'Humean' view of nature and of causal processes. At the same time,
Mayr addresses the question of the nature of reasons for acting and
complements its substance-causal account of activity with a
non-causal account of acting for reasons in terms of following a
standard of success.
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