Options and Agency
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This book develops an original theory of agentive modality: the kind of modality that is distinctive to agents. The central thesis is that the idea of an option should be taken as primitive, and that other agentive notions - such as ability, skill, and free...
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This book develops an original theory of agentive modality: the kind of modality that is distinctive to agents. The central thesis is that the idea of an option should be taken as primitive, and that other agentive notions - such as ability, skill, and free will - should be understood in terms of options. The main contributions of this book are twofold. First, it resolves many of the outstanding questions in the metaphysics and semantics of agentive modality. In doing so, it develops original accounts of topics that have been central to philosophy since Aristotle. It also contributes to a lively contemporary literature on these topics. Second, it articulates an austere and uncompromising form of compatibilism about free will, termed "simple compatibilism." Simple compatibilism is so-called because it rejects both the reductive theses endorsed by traditional compatibilists and the sophisticated proposals of many contemporary compatibilists. Instead, it turns precisely on insisting that options are analytically simple. Arguments for incompatibilism are shown to rest on auxiliary principles that should, in light of the book's general account of options, be rejected.
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1. Foundations.- 2. The Simplicity of Options.- 3. The Analysis of Ability.- 4. The Active and Passive Powers.- 5. A Picture of Agentive Possibility.- 6. Chapter Six: Against Reconciliation.- 7. Simple Compatibilism.Autoren-Porträt von John T. Maier
John T. Maier is an Outpatient Therapist at the Freedom Trail Clinic in Boston. He is also adjunct faculty in Philosophy at Bentley University and in Educational Studies at Lesley University. He has previously held positions at the Australian National University, Cambridge University, and Peking University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John T. Maier
- 2022, 1st ed. 2022, XXX, 170 Seiten, Masse: 14,8 x 23,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3031102428
- ISBN-13: 9783031102424
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Englisch
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