Understanding human agency:
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Oxford [u. a.]
Oxford Univ. Press
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. [297] - 309. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Umfang: | X, 314 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780199606214 |
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| adam_text | Our self-understanding as human agents includes a commitment to three crucial
claims about human agency: that agents must be active, that our actions are part
of the natural order, and that intentional actions can be explained by the agents
reasons for acting. While all of these claims are indispensable elements of our
self-conception as human agents, they are in continuous conflict and tension with
one another, especially if one adopts the currently predominant view of what the
natural order must be like. One of the central tasks of the 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-mo del developed by Donald Davidson. Erasmus JMayr, in contrast, de-
velops a new agent-causal solution to these conflicts and shows why this solution
is superior both to event-causalist accounts and to Von Wrights 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 his substance-causal account of activity
with a non-causal account of acting for reasons in terms of following a standard
of success.
Contents
introduction 1
1 The problem of human agency 5
1.1. Three harmless theses and a problem 6
1.2. Reacting to the problem: the ‘privileging’ reaction 14
2 The agenda for finding a solution 23
2.1. What kind of solution is required? 23
2.2. Performances, agential control, and intentionalism 27
2.3. Event-causalism versus agent-causalism 36
3 Alien desires and Frankfurt’s problem of identification 46
3.1. The challenge from Frankfurt’s cases of alienation 47
3.2. Frankfurt’s hierarchical model 52
3.3. Responses to the three problems: the later Frankfurt, Watson,
and Velleman 58
4 Identification, desires, and practical reasoning 69
4.1. Identification as ‘treating a desire as reason-giving’ 70
4.2. The authority of practical reasoning and the nature of
motivating reasons 80
4.3. Three objections 91
4.4. Conclusion 102
5 Deviant causal chains 104
5.1. The problem of antecedential waywardness 104
5.2. The standard of adequacy for a causalist analysis 109
5.3. The ‘immediate causation’ strategy 114
5.4. Sensitivity strategies 117
5.5. Sustaining causation 121
5.6. The new ‘manifestation’ or ‘well-functioning’ analyses of action 130
5.7. Conclusion 140
6 How agent-causation works I: the problem, and a brief theory
of powers 142
6.1. The classical argument against the possibility of agent-causation 146
6.2. Powers as genuine properties 159 7
7 How agent-causation works II: the irreducibility of powers 169
7.1. The irreducibility of power-ascriptions 170
7.2. The ontological irreducibility of powers 181
X CONTENTS
7.3. Powers without ‘natural necessity’ and essentialism 188
7.4. Conclusion 196
8 How agent-causation works III: from causal powers to
agent-causation 198
8.1. Substance-causation among inanimate substances 198
8.2. Agent-causation by human beings 219
8.3. The proposed account and the standard objections against
agent-causation 226
9 Are agent-causal powers reducible to microproperties? 233
9.1. Five degrees of dependence of the properties of composites 234
9.2. The dependence of human powers on microproperties 239
9.3. Human powers and ‘downward causation’ 240
9.4. Summary 247
10 Intentional agency and acting for reasons 249
10.1. Davidson’s challenge and the purported causal element in
reasons-explanations 251
10.2. Reacting to the challenge—why (surprisingly) causalism
itself does not provide an answer 254
10.3. Some unsuccessful non-causal answers to Davidson’s challenge 259
11 Understanding human agency 268
11.1. Acting for a reason as following a standard of success 268
11.2. Putting it all together 291
References
Index
297
311
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