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Agents' Abilities (Hardcover)
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Agents' Abilities (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophical Analysis
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Almost everyone can run. Only very few can run a marathon. But what
is it for agents to be able to do things? This question, while
central to many debates in philosophy, is still awaiting a
comprehensive answer. The book provides just that. Drawing on some
valuable insights from previous works of abilities and making use
of possible world semantics, Jaster develops the "success view", a
view on which abilities are a matter of successful behavior. Along
the way, she explores the gradable nature of abilities, the
contextsensitivity of ability statements, the difference between
general and specific abilities, the relationship between abilities
and dispositions, and the ability to act otherwise. The book is
mandatory reading for anyone working on abilities, and provides
valuable insights for anyone dealing with agents' abilities in
other fields of philosophy. For this book, Romy Jaster has received
both the Wolfgang Stegmuller Prize and the De Gruyter Prize for
Analytical Philosophy of Mind or Metaphysics/Ontology.
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