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 beingcaused to act as we do by factors external to our will. He demonstrates many weaknesses of the materialist conception of the human mind and its powers thatis dominant in Western philosophy. INDICE: Introduction; Part I: Mental Causation, Causal Closure, and Emergent Dualism; 1: Self, Agency, and Mental Causation; 2: Causal Closure Principles and Emergentism; 3: Physical Causal Closure and the Invisibility of Mental Causation; 4: Could Volitions be Epiphenomenal?; 5: The Self as an Emergent Substance; Part II: Persons, Rational Action, and Free Will; 6: Event Causation and Agent Causation; 7: Personal Agency; 8: Substance Causation, Persons, and Free Will; 9: Rational Selves and Freedom of Action; 10: Needs, Facts, Goodness, and Truth; Bibliography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959250-0
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés