Free Action

List of contents

1. The Case Against Free Action 2. Character as Causal Circumstance 3. Action and Happening – Problems and Perplexities 4. How Does One raise One’s Arm? 5. By Willing, One Does… 6. Physiological Happenings and Bodily Actions 7. Learning and Physiology 8. ‘Action Equals Bodily Movement Plus Motive’ 9. Motive and Explanation 10. Wanting and Wanting To Do 11. Wanting To Do and Doing 12. Wanting To Do, Reasons For Doing, Doing 13. Bodily Movement, Action and Agent 14. Conclusion – Decision, Choice, Prediction and the Voluntary

About the author

A.I. Melden

Summary

This book, first published in 1961, looks into crucially important issues that are often ignored in the familiar arguments for and against the possibility of free action. These issues are brought to light and examined in some detail.

Product details

• Authors: A. I. Melden, A.i. Melden, Melden A.I.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138702202
• ISBN: 978-1-138-70220-2
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Free Will and Determinism; Routledge Library Editions: Free Will and Determinism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge