Persons and Causes

Author	: Timothy O'Connor
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 152
Release	: 2002-11-14
ISBN-10	: 9780198030508
ISBN-13	: 0198030509
Rating	: 4/5 (509 Downloads)

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Book Synopsis Persons and Causes by : Timothy O'Connor

Download or read book Persons and Causes written by Timothy O'Connor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind.

Persons and Causes Related Books

Language: en
Pages: 152

Persons and Causes

Authors: Timothy O'Connor

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphy

Language: en
Pages: 274

Agents, Causes, and Events

Authors: Timothy O'Connor

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Libertarianism, action, and self-determination / Galen Strawson -- The problem of autonomy / Thomas Nagel -- On giving libertarians what they say they want / Da

Language: en
Pages: 432

The Book of Why

Authors: Judea Pearl

Categories: Computers

Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-15 - Publisher: Basic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intell

Language: en
Pages: 0

Reasons and Causes

Authors: A. Laitinen

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-12 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Are the reasons for which we act the causes of our actions? In the nine essays collected here (including a major historical overview by the editors), experts in

Language: en
Pages: 433

Impossible Causes

Authors: Julie Mayhew

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-17 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Eerie and menacing, timely and moving, Impossible Causes is an unputdownable novel that examines the consequences of silence kept at young women's expense. 'A t