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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor E. J. Lowe was educated at the Universities of Cambridge (1968-72) and Oxford (1972-5). He has been a member of the Philosophy Department at Durham University since 1980 and a Professor since 1995. He is the author of many books and articles on metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and action, the philosophy of logic and language, and the philosophy of John Locke. Klappentext 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 to our will. He demonstrates many weaknesses of the materialist conception of the human mind and its powers that is dominant in Western philosophy. Zusammenfassung 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 to our will. He demonstrates many weaknesses of the materialist conception of the human mind and its powers that is dominant in Western philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
