Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Free Will and Action Explanation: A Non-Causal, Compatibilist Account

Autor Scott Sehon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 mai 2016
Do we have free will and moral responsibility? Is free will compatible with determinism? Scott Sehon argues that we can make progress on these questions by focusing on an underlying issue: the nature of action explanation. When a person acts, or does something on purpose, we explain the behavior by citing the agent's reasons. The dominant view in philosophy of mind has been to construe such explanations as a species of causal explanation. Part I of the book proposes and defends a non-causal account of action and agency, according to which reason explanation of human behavior is irreducibly teleological rather than causal. Part II applies the teleological account of action to free will and responsibility, arguing that the free actions--the ones for which we are directly responsible--are the goal-directed actions, the actions that are teleologically explicable in terms of our reasons. It is then argued that this non-causal account of action undermines the appeal of incompatibilist arguments, arguments attempting to show that free will is not compatible with determinism. Beyond this, Sehon argues that the non-causal compatibilist account works well in practice: it is in accord with our clear intuitions about cases, and it both explains and provides guidance in the cases where our intuitions are murkier.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 46540 lei

Preț vechi: 61482 lei
-24% Nou

Puncte Express: 698

Preț estimativ în valută:
8908 9284$ 7415£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 25-31 decembrie

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198758495
ISBN-10: 0198758499
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Scott Sehon's ambitious account of his teleological approach to action explanation, free will, and moral responsibility is very well written, cogent, and engaging. Furthermore, while this is certainly a book aimed squarely at an academic audience, it is one likely to draw the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. As well as philosophers concerned with debates surrounding free will and compatibilism, Free Will and Action Explanation is also likely to be of interest to those working in the fields of psychology and cognitive science.
It is an ambitious book, full of original and often compelling arguments.

Notă biografică

Scott Sehon is Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He received his PhD from Princeton University and his BA from Harvard. He is the author of Teleological Realism: Mind, Agency, and Explanation (MIT Press) as well as numerous articles concerning philosophy of mind and free will.