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Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility in the Early Heidegger (Paperback)
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Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility in the Early Heidegger (Paperback)
Series: New Heidegger Research
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This book employs Heidegger's work of the 1920s and early 1930s to
develop distinctively Heideggerian accounts of agency, freedom, and
responsibility, making the case that Heidegger's thought provides a
compelling alternative to the mainstream philosophical accounts of
these concepts. Hans Pedersen demonstrates that Heidegger's thought
can be fruitfully used to develop a plausible alternative
understanding of agency that avoids the metaphysical commitments
that give rise to the standard free-will debate. The first several
chapters are devoted to working out an account of the ontological
structure of human agency, specifically focusing on the
Heideggerian understanding of the role of mental states, causal
explanations, and deliberation in human agency, arguing that action
need not be understood in terms of the causal efficacy of mental
states. In the following chapters, building on the prior account of
agency, Pedersen develops Heideggerian accounts of freedom and
responsibility. Having shown that action need not be understood
causally, the Heideggerian view thereby avoids the conflict between
free will and determinism that gives rise to the problem of free
will and the correlative problem of responsibility.
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