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Author : R. A. Imlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Freedom of Intentional Action and the Concept of Responsibility written by R. A. Imlay and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrei Buckareff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137414952
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Agency, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility written by Andrei Buckareff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in problems related to human agency and responsibility by philosophers and researchers in cognate disciplines. The present volume brings together original contributions by leading specialists working in this vital field of philosophical inquiry. The contents represent the state of the art of philosophical research on intentional agency, free will, and moral responsibility. The volume begins with chapters on the metaphysics of agency and moves to chapters examining various problems of luck. The final two sections have a normative focus, with the first of the two containing chapters examining issues related to responsible agency and blame and the chapters in the final section examine responsibility and relationships. This book will be of interest to researchers and students interested in both metaphysical and normative issues related to human agency.
Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801481055
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Action, Intention, and Reason written by Robert Audi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three new essays and 11 others published since 1971 develop and defend a general position on action theory that is intentionalist about the nature of action, causal and nomic about explanations of action, compatibilist about free action and moral responsibility, internalist about the grounds of rational actions, and holistic about the nature of rationality. Paper edition (8105-8), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Subasini Barik
Publisher : DK Printworld (P) Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8124611122
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Action, Freedom and Responsibility written by Subasini Barik and published by DK Printworld (P) Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a work on human doing, analyses and applies three central aspects of human life – Action, Freedom and Responsibility – in the wide spectrum of the Philosophy of Mind. Reflections on these issues and their interconnections have a significant effect on the Philosophy of Value and application of ethical theories in practical life. This book even reconstructs the conceptual connection between action and freedom, on the one hand, and that between freedom and responsibility, on the other. It also puts the concepts of freedom and determinism to critical test and reinterprets them from different angles and perspectives. The conventional doctrine of karma, based on the teachings of the BhagavadgÁtÀ, is relieved from its usual deterministic presentation and a logically reasonable explanation is offered. Human actions and human agency are central concepts in the philosophy of mind and action. Free will and responsibility constitute the bedrock of the moral life of the human agents and the book pinpoints that freedom is meant to undertake the goal-oriented actions. It is, therefore, focused on the enquiry into the various aspects of philosophy of mind, as well as the philosophy of value.
Author : Herbert Morris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Freedom and Responsibility written by Herbert Morris and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Pink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192508059
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Self-Determination written by Thomas Pink and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pink offers a new approach to the problem of free will. Do we have control of how we act, so that we are free to act in more than one way, and does it matter to morality whether we do? Pink argues that what matters to morality is not in fact the freedom to do otherwise, but something more primitive - a basic capacity or power to determine for ourselves what we do. This capacity might or might not take the form of a freedom to act in more than one way, and it might or might not be compatible with causal determinism. What really matters to morality is that it is we who determine what we do. What we do must not simply be a function of powers or capacities for which we are not responsible, or a matter of mere chance. At the heart of moral responsibility is a distinctive form of power that is quite unlike ordinary causation - a power by which we determine outcomes in a way quite differently from the way ordinary causes determine outcomes. Pink examines how this power is involved in action, and how the nature of action permits the operation of such a power to determine it.
Author : Hugh McCann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801485831
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (858 download)
Download or read book The Works of Agency written by Hugh McCann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, McCann develops a unified perspective on human action. Written over a period of 25 years, the essays provide a comprehensive survey of the major topics in contemporary action theory. In four sections, the book addresses the ontology of action; the foundations of action; intention, will and freedom; and practical rationality. McCann works out a compromise between competing perspectives on the individuation of action; explores the foundations of action and defends a volitional theory; argues for a libertarian view of both the formation and the execution of intention; and considers the question of consistency in rational intentions, as well as the relationship between practical and theoretical reasoning.
Author : Randolph Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199347522
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Omissions written by Randolph Clarke and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides acting, we often omit to do or refrain from doing certain things. Omitting and refraining are not simply special cases of action; they require their own distinctive treatment. This book offers the first comprehensive account of these phenomena, addressing questions of metaphysics, agency, and moral responsibility.
Author : Sharon R. Krause
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623472X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Freedom Beyond Sovereignty written by Sharon R. Krause and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be free? We invoke the word frequently, yet the freedom of countless Americans is compromised by social inequalities that systematically undercut what they are able to do and to become. If we are to remedy these failures of freedom, we must move beyond the common assumption, prevalent in political theory and American public life, that individual agency is best conceived as a kind of personal sovereignty, or as self-determination or control over one’s actions. In Freedom Beyond Sovereignty, Sharon R. Krause shows that individual agency is best conceived as a non-sovereign experience because our ability to act and affect the world depends on how other people interpret and respond to what we do. The intersubjective character of agency makes it vulnerable to the effects of social inequality, but it is never in a strict sense socially determined. The agency of the oppressed sometimes surprises us with its vitality. Only by understanding the deep dynamics of agency as simultaneously non-sovereign and robust can we remediate the failed freedom of those on the losing end of persistent inequalities and grasp the scope of our own responsibility for social change. Freedom Beyond Sovereignty brings the experiences of the oppressed to the center of political theory and the study of freedom. It fundamentally reconstructs liberal individualism and enables us to see human action, personal responsibility, and the meaning of liberty in a totally new light.
Author : Sandro Nannini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317114795
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Intentionality, Deliberation and Autonomy written by Sandro Nannini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many important thinkers in the philosophical tradition, like Aristotle or Hume, have used an explicit theory of action as the basis of their respective normative theories of practical rationality and morality. The idea behind this architecture of theories is that action theory can inform us about the origin, bonds, reach and limits of practical reason. The aim of this book is to revive this direct connection between action theory and practical philosophy, in particular to provide systematic action-theoretical underpinnings for the discussion about the normative structure of practical reason. This book brings together a collection of specially commissioned essays from internationally prestigious scholars in the field and represents the state of the art in contemporary philosophy of action. The book is divided into three parts: i. conceptual work about what actions, intentions and intentional actions are; ii. empirical theory of practical deliberation; and iii.theories about the action theoretic features of autonomy. The volume significantly advances these three lines of research and offers important new contributions to each of them.
Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405138109
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Free Will and Moral Responsibility written by Peter A. French and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume explore various issues pertaining to human agency, such as the relationship between free will and causal determinism, and the nature and conditions of moral responsibility. Builds on and extends some of the very best recent work in the field. Features lively and vigorous debate. Forges connections between abstract philosophical theorizing and applied work in neuroscience and even criminal law.
Author : Thomas Nadelhoffer
Publisher : VDM Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783836435628
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Intentions and Intentional Actions in Ordinary Language and the Law written by Thomas Nadelhoffer and published by VDM Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most philosophers agree that intentional actions play an important role in our ascriptions of responsibility, there is disagreement concerning the precise nature of this role. Unfortunately, there has traditionally been a dearth of empirical data about ascriptions of intentional action. Lately, however, researchers have begun filing in this empirical lacuna. In this book, I discuss how this research sheds light on problems in action theory, ethics, and legal philosophy. In doing so, I first set the stage by discussing some of the problems traditionally associated with the concept of intentional action before turning my attention to recent research on the folk concept of intentional action. Finally, I compare and contrast the folk concepts of intention and intentional action with their legal counterparts. My goal is to flesh out the extent to which these concepts diverge-a problem that is particularly pressing given that in litigated cases involving juries, jurors are often asked to judge whether the defendant acted intentionally, purposely, and knowingly. This book is addressed to philosophers and psychologists working at the intersection of folk psychology and the law.
Author : Robert Young (Ph. D.)
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Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Freedom, Responsibility, and God written by Robert Young (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Pink
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192853589
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Free Will: A Very Short Introduction written by Thomas Pink and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - but are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? This book looks at free will.
Author : Carl Ginet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521388184
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (881 download)
Download or read book On Action written by Carl Ginet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated account of the individuation of actions propounds a challenging version of the view that freedom of action is incompatible with determinism as well.
Author : Michael Quante
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139453742
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Hegel's Concept of Action written by Michael Quante and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an important gateway through which professional analytic philosophers and their students can come to understand the significance of Hegel's philosophy for contemporary theory of action. As such it will contribute to the erosion of the sterile barrier between the continental and analytic approaches to philosophy. Michael Quante focuses on what Hegel has to say about such central concepts as action, person and will, and then brings these views to bear on contemporary debates in analytic philosophy. Crisply written, this book will thus address the common set of preoccupations of analytic philosophers of mind and action, and Hegel specialists.
Author : George Pavlakos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108628228
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Agency, Negligence and Responsibility written by George Pavlakos and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The vast majority of the literature on responsibility tends to associate the idea of control with intentional action. This seems intuitive and natural. 'Intentional action' describes bodily movements executed because of and guided by reasons for action. How else, indeed, can a rational agent control their bodily movements? Disagreements among theorists arise, however, on the characterization of 'reasons for actions'. On the standard account of action, reasons for action are a binomial of beliefs and desires construed as mental states.1 On a more sophisticated account of the standard view, reasons for actions involve plans that direct us and result in ways of self-governance.2 On the classical tradition of action, reasons for actions track good-making characteristics or values.3 Finally a Kantian view would understand reasons for action as ipso facto standards of willing, given the link between rationality and the will which is characteristic of that view.4 Underlying all these variety of understandings of 'reasons for action' lies the intuition that the agent is engaged with reasons, which enable her to control her bodily movements. She directs her body towards the transformation of the world as she plans, values and/or desires. We say that the agent has knowledge of her own actions and can assert that "control is the direction given by the agent through her reasoning"--
