Understanding human agency
Mayr, Erasmus.
Understanding human agency [electronic resource] / Erasmus Mayr. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (x, 314 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How can we be active agents when processes in the world are explicable by the laws of natural science? Erasmus Mayr explores this deep-running tension in our self-understanding and develops a new agent-causal solution to the conflict. He argues that actions explained by aims and reasons are compatible with a scientific view of the universe.
9780191731631 (ebook) : No price
Act (Philosophy)
Agent (Philosophy)
B105.A35 / M3 2011
128.4
Understanding human agency [electronic resource] / Erasmus Mayr. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (x, 314 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How can we be active agents when processes in the world are explicable by the laws of natural science? Erasmus Mayr explores this deep-running tension in our self-understanding and develops a new agent-causal solution to the conflict. He argues that actions explained by aims and reasons are compatible with a scientific view of the universe.
9780191731631 (ebook) : No price
Act (Philosophy)
Agent (Philosophy)
B105.A35 / M3 2011
128.4