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Personal agency the metaphysics of mind and action

Author: Edward Jonathan Lowe
Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press 2010
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Lowe defends a common-sense view of ourselves as free agents, capable of bringing about changes in the world through the choices we make, rather than being caused to act as we do by factors external  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Edward Jonathan Lowe
ISBN: 9780199592500 0199592500 9780199217144 0199217149
OCLC Number: 901611559
Description: 222 p.
Contents: PART I: MENTAL CAUSATION, CAUSAL CLOSURE, AND EMERGENT DUALISM; PART II: PERSONS, RATIONAL ACTION, AND FREE WILL
Responsibility: E.J. Lowe.

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I enjoyed and admire this book. The author boldly and intelligently takes a fresh look at numerous fundamental issues in philosophy of mind and metaphysics. * Randolph Clarke, Mind *

 
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