Agency and causation in the human sciences / / edited by Francesca Castellani, Josef Quitterer.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Paderborn, Germany : : Mentis,, [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (213 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Selected contributions of an international conference on "Agency and Causation in the Human Sciences," which was organized in June 2005 at the University of Trento. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Agency and Causation in the Human Sciences
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- CAUSATION
- Making Something Happen - Where Causation and Agency Meet
- Accidental Causation: An Aristotelian Theory from a Modern Point of View
- Three Tasks for (Hard Interactionist) Dualists
- AGENCY
- Between Agent Causationism and Volitionism: A Middle Path
- Mental or Agent Causation?
- Indexicality and Human Agency
- FREE WILL
- Freedom with a Human Face
- Free Action, Moral Responsibility, and Alternative Possibilities: Frankfurt-style Cases Revisited
- Is Anomalous Monism a Suitable Theory of Freedom?
- EXPLANATION OF ACTIONS
- Omissions and Causal Explanations
- Epistemic Logic and Practical Inference
- Teleological Explanation, Emergence and Downward Causation
- Causation and Teleological Explanation of Action
- Which Theory of Behaviour for the Social Sciences?
- List of Authors.