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Understanding human agency [electronic resource] / Erasmus Mayr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 314 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780191731631 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 128.4 23
LOC classification:
  • B105.A35 M3 2011
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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